Bridge To Tigray

The destroyed Tigray-Amhara bridge key access to
humanitarian aid to Tigray. The Ethiopian government
has been accused of trying to suffocate the Tigray region.
Photo Courtesy: latimes.com

Hope deferred

Makes the heart sick

Like shattered louver

Laying the silt on thick

The heart hardly holds still

When a cold wind howls

Straight thru the cowls

To batter a betrayed soul

Hear the bell toll.

Shudda been a ray of peace

In a place of gloom

'Stead you blow your people to bits

And make rubble of their boon.

How do you sleep thru the nights?

Do you turn off the lights?

Have you no shame,

Drawing diagrams of hate

With the blood of your kindred

Like a man gone over the bend?

Playing God

Is plain dumb

When you're down

Burning bridges

You's a clown

Sliding locks on hinges.

You turn on the dark,

Suffocate a region

Like a concentration camp,

Pile a shoal of carrion,

Soon to hit a million

Disregard all opinion

Ain't no answer to a fragile union.

When you take out a bridge

The quest for peace is breached

So people trade feelings for fridge

And payback's a bitch.

Cause a bridge

Is a promise that don't renege

A bridge

Is a lifeline during a siege

A bridge

Is tedious humanitarian access abridged

You do not divide

If you intend to unite.

Akpan