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Our Global Village & The Dawn after the Pandemic

By Obinna Chilekezi

Our global village a global village indeed! as while in school, we’re warned of dangers of going global for a big small village, but we thought only of the passion and money, the beauty and trade never before is man this caged, as the wilds freely move daily activities, unconcerned! never told to watch that one day china would sneeze, the rest of the globe would catch virus and locked down for days, and deaths would rise to the mount and graves swollen never before is man this caged, as the wilds freely move daily activities, unconcerned! here we are today, this virused world revolving around in this global village of national borders closed, states closing theirs too even local authorities banging theirs strongly too never before is man this caged, as the wilds freely move daily activities, unconcerned! can this be end of our global village as the lights in the village went off, from house to house to your tents O’ Israel, as local authorities banged their doors and the villages return back to their huts or could there be another rebirth of the globe, as we know it. never before is man this caged, as the wilds freely move daily activities, unconcerned! The dawn after coronavirus pandemic Loud smiles creep across the waves. Yes smiles were loud At the meander of holding hands again together All along the landscape of nesting And the incredulous affectation, in the air As we danced to the tune of the invigorated song of laughter The weather in blue bright. Reminder of then days of isolation From days of death, fear and rumours of That deadly virus that swan across the Gatepost of boundaries, darkly and oozing Out more deaths along every corners of the globe The earth became sick. Sick of the deaths of its pride, mankind; our earth was sick, with its garters down, in the foam chest of doubt. Darkness became The beginning of the morning sun, and love Was kept at bay. Our lovely sandlot turned gray Then this new dawn. This dawn Became warn and grew like our Iroko of hope. And It came as a time of relief, unimaginable Or imagined - we all in unison said Bye bye to covid 19, bye bye to its death. The Earth became sick. Sick of the deaths of its pride, mankind; our Earth was sick, with its garters down, in the foam chest of doubt. Darkness became The beginning of the morning sun, and love Was kept at bay. Our lovely sandlot turned gray Then this new dawn. This dawn Became warn and grew like our Iroko of hope. And It came as a time of relief, unimaginable Or imagined - we all in unison said Bye bye to COVID 19, bye bye to its death. Loud smiles creep across the waves. Yes smiles were loud At the meander of holding hands again together All along the landscape of nesting And the incredulous affectation, in the air As we danced to the tune of the invigorated song of laughter

Obinna Chilekezi is a Nigerian poet and insurance practitioner whose poems have been published in journals and anthologies. He has three published collections which are: Son Chikeziri too died, Rejection and other poems and Songs of a Stranger in the Smiling Coast. One of his insurance texts won the 2016 African Insurance Organisation Book Award. He can be used on ugobichi@yahoo.com or obinnachilekezi1@gmail.com.

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