Diamond On Glass Windows

This is my number 900 blog post.

For the very first Boko Haram Victim

Enough alive

To have strength to die

You transmit that shine

From behind the screen like

A diamond on glass windows

Wherever your memory goes

You spark a flicker of hope

More than you’d ever know

You’re always on my mind

Until your death’s justified

A recipe beamed beyond tomorrows

Like a diamond on glass windows

When the sun

Wrestles the soil

For a glob

Of that innocent blood

It inspires a momentary brilliance

Like a diamond on glass windows

Your last day was a blast

And your memory pierces the bones

Charming eyes of every beholder

Like a diamond on glass windows

Akpan