Poets' Corner
To Be Continued
Walk the streets
Or hide in their fashionable caves
Assured that they will not revert
Convinced by their priest
That their primitive ways
Can be subdued
With religious pantomime
Drinking wine for blood
Eating bread for body
Worshipping a celibate God
In the image of a Saviour
Converging once a week
To ask forgiveness for repeated sins
To be repeated...
So what songs
Will they sing now
That they've escaped today
Knowing tomorrow will pounce upon them
After what they've done
And probably steal their life away
Or shake their entity
Till their voice flutter desperately
Across the universe
Seeking the merciful ear of Omnipotence
But didn't we tell them
How foolish they looked
Running after a comet's tail
And because
They couldn't catch it
Spat at the Sun
They have escaped today
Tomorrow will pounce upon them
And probably steal their life away...
Lasana M. Sekou,
Staten Island, New York
