Just a day ago, we heard the news that Katsina Students Burnt Churches Over Exam Questions, and this is what prompted me to share this poem with #PulseFans as a message to embrace peace and dialogue in place of violence.
You Fight For G(g)OD? (a poem)
Sectarian violence is a reoccurring decimal in human history and Nigeria has had its own share of such.
Because a man’s not of your creed,
You strike him down without remorse,
And there you stand to watch him bleed,
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His eyes pleading in muted Morse!
Is there a cross across his face?
Or in his eyes the crescent-star?
Is he a demon by his race –
Be his skin white or dark as tar?
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You say you fight for G(g)od – I sigh.
For in the forges of your wrath
Your metal conscience knows you lie,
Because great evils you have wrought!
Which G(g)od did bid you fight for H(h)im,
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You frail and breath-filled, molded clay,
That now you kill on senseless whims,
The one with whom you did once play!?
Is it G(g)od's whispers in your head,
Commands within His Scriptures' found,
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Or are you just a blind man led
By evil–preaching priests, hell-bound?
Oh yes, God shall punish us here –
Even before we leave Earth's shores –
And when we meet together there,
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Your evil will earn you Hell's doors!
So though we die and cry in pains –
(Still fawning hatred everywhere);
Don’t curse the drought and flooding rains –
They are God’s tears and angry glare!
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People, lets embrace peace because God is not helpless, he can defend himself!
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