Torrents from Golgotha, built into a bloody flood,
Terminating our torments.
Is this crimson flow a red alert
Against our torturers?

Red erosion, oozing from porous palms,
Opening agape the taskmasters' mouth.
Is it for real
That this place of fetters would give way for feasts?

Bleeding nostril, gushing water,
Mixing with our black emotions.
Will this emulsion suspend our curses
And leave sweatings for monkeys?

Unclothed sacrifice with unclotted bruises
Tell us, would we rise again as you
And order death to go to hell?

 

From Sola Ogunbayo: Sola Ogunbayo is a Christian poet, a literary critic, an author of two books namely, The Wheel of God and other Stories and The Lion and Joel. The Nigerian writer has a heavenly forte to war with words.