jarcher54

Nigerian Dream: For Christopher Okigbo

I dreamed there was a poet

A man who loved words and rivers

I dreamed him--no one on this earth,

On this hard, heavy earth,

Writes like that, smiles like that

Brings joy and tears like that

I dreamed he carried a thousand scrolls

Piled in his arms up to his brain

And he began to give them to us

But after a precious few scrolls were unrolled

A trumpet called, and he turned away,

And the remaining scrolls became a rifle

Thunder roared, drums pounded

me awake, and he was gone.