"LET THEM BE" A POEM WRITTEN AND PERFORMED BY CHISOM OHUAKA AT THE LOUDTHOTZ POETRY OPEN READING NOVEMBER, 2012

LET THEM BE!

Frothing at the mouth monthly

Die like the frothing of the palmwine

Echoes in eternity very hollow

Thrown into the abyss of the heart

Thrown into the darkness that is called the mind

Sown into the ground called history

Waiting for it to grow or die

To be harvested by the future

And enjoyed by the generation unborn

Like the prayer of the virgin

“Don’t let my breast fall”

Don’t let them be forgotten

Don’t let them be like a lie

Soon forgotten

Please! Please! don’t let them die

Let them be as potent as a shark

Let them still shout back at me

In eternity.

- CHISOM