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November 14, 2016
Personal Experience, Poetry

Crack crack Boom By Nigerian Soldier | Bentem Josef

Crack crack Boom By Nigerian Soldier | Bentem Josef
November 14, 2016
Personal Experience, Poetry

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Crack crack Boom
That was the sound that brought their doom

The battle was at its peak
Now, no one could afford to be weak

Fires of big guns, bombs and its hellish heat
Many will rather go six feet

The battle field, deserted
You’re alone with a thousand dead

But it seems like you’re in a market place
With every one’s eye giving you a chilling gaze

“Where are these ones now?”
We were together before they took their bow

Dead here, alive there
They watch from up above, o mortals that depend on air

Soon it would be cut off
And the soul shall be ripped off this fleshy stuff

To join those that were late too early
And you meet a reality realer than a Telly

Then you ask, “was it worth the fight?”
“I should have used my days doing right”

Just like mummified cadavas
We Hang, ready to be plucked like over ripe guavas

by Bentem Josef

About Josef

Joseph Bentem is a poet and serves in the Nigerian Military

He studied marketing in the University of Calabar

A member of FECA

He likes to spend his free time reading.

Joseph is currently working on his first Book – An Anthology.
Josefbentem@gmail.com

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2 comments

Prince Nyong says:
November 15, 2016 at 7:52 pm

This is enlightening.

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Mirabelle Morah says:
November 17, 2016 at 6:56 pm

Thank you Prince

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