A Piece Of Broken Moon

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A shard of shattered glass

Conveys the sentence of doom

In the toppled blocks of a class

Thru a piece of broken moon,

Stark remnants of gloom

When things fell down flat.

‘Stay-at-home' was mastered

To something of a craft

When an earthquake rode thru town

And gave it a runaround.

School structures came tumbling down

A cruel blow to the eased lockdown

People got trapped underground

Screaming then fade to no sound

A 7.2 magnitude

With an overblown attitude

Made buildings crumble

And pounded hopes to rubble,

There's always a shrapnel of faith

After the storm has spent its rage

Lurking in a tucked away cage,

Waiting for its unique prison break

Big dreams are made of these

Be the reason they can relate,

Bind the wound where it bleeds

We can help children believe

So the past need not be relived.

Akpan