Jude Chukwuemeka Muoneke

SIT AT HOME

 

Freedom fighters
Set an order,
To one and all, 
To sit at home.

South-East
Their geographical
location,
Weekly they fly their rifles. 

Home, but in exile, 
Freedom fighters 
Living beast, 
Enemy of oneself. 

The blood of kinsmen 
flow like a river, 
On the streets and streams, 
Crying pullets
rain her venoms on the roofs.

Our ancestors frown their faces 
from the world of the dead, 
They have sent emissaries 
With swords and arrows. 

Soon many friendly foes 
will be laid bare, 
And sanity will smile again 
Sit at home, 
An enemy of freedom.