In loving memory of Dana plane crash victims,
Sun June 3rd, 2012.
A wailing was heard in Lagos
Weeping and great mourning
Dana weeps for her offspring
Who would not at this loss?
She refused to be comforted
For all her brood are no more
Aboard and afloat like of yore
She smiled to the sky assured
Lively with wealth and health
Animated with treasury of life
Of beauty, of love and of strive
But you were waiting oh death!
A heartless beast and a sadist
Hiding under wings of shadows
Coward in the order of shallows
Or wouldn’t you fight with fist?
Aside, we have many an enemy
For the reason of being humans
Thus let all board to these planes
Fighting for our good like an army
I come to you Dana in solidarity
With candles, words and flowers
Hold back your eyes from tears,
And your cry from misery and pity
Behold, they’ll return to you anew
Though you don’t know how but wait
And like the fruiting of a grain of wheat
Peace would come to you like dew
Jeremiah 31: 15-16
I commiserate with you with a heartfelt sympathy,
Ositadimma Amakeze
I breathe, I die and I live!
“Or wouldn’t you fight with fist?”
At first glance, that sentence looks incorrect…but if what I understood is what you meant, it is correct.
I don’t think ‘a’ should follow your ‘heartfelt’. You can’t quantify sympathy I think.
Nice one.
@Seun-Odukoya thanks for the correction. I appreciate.
@chemokopi great insight. The title though was an irony.
@lancaster same here buddy.
Nice. Hmmm…I am wondering if I should sympathize with Miss Dana since she was already old enough to be retired from active service. Maybe I should since it has been confirmed that her foster parents knew she was ill before letting her fly. I grieve for the now broken eggs that where in her womb.
I ditto @chomokopi. I feel “only” for the eggs inside. Wasted lives leaving behind broken dreams and unfinished business.
Nice one @ostar
I really concur with@chemokopi‘s comment,i weep 4 those innocent souls that boarded nt knowing dat they won’t disembark and those that were sitting/cooking/reading/sleeping/gisting in d comfort of their homes…..I weep 4 my country and d nonchalant attitude 2wards human life.
@obionyinye let us keep our knees down too,
prayers changes things. God bless you.
@uchechukwu1 dalu but @chemokopi “Miss Dana” is ironic personification.
Nice one@ostar,but i agree with @chemokopi.Keep it on
This is (an) art. The tittle is ironic and it’s personification is purposefully unique. Your contention is taken care of by the 5th stanza, “Aside….” Nor your limping between opinions unnecessary, works of art are won’t and or liable to evoke applied and implied disposition. Above all, I appreciate your words. Life without you all is strife!
Requiescant in pace amici!
Wont please!
I weep for the children she took with her on that ill-fated journey…
Nice lines Ostar.
@sibbylwhyte something is missing….
the signature. Thanks the Billion $ B!
@sambrightomo …that memories do not fade.
You are blessed.
@ostar; and now it’s been found! $ß…Hehehe…Hope you’ve been good!?
However d tears,lives lost cannot be replaced.We can only capture history in a hurry with d power of our pens…
…I feel you bro…
we cry with our pen
for our ill-fated brethren
pen continually bled
as we craft a space for them
on the scroll of history
hoping that the grand perpetrators
get to read them this time…
Ostar thanks for the contribution. All izz well!
Okay. Na today i don c ur name. Ositadimma Amakeze.
Well written.
@ostar…well said, the horror of this incident will not be easily erased from many minds.
The ‘comforted’ in the first line of the second stanza, “She refused to be comforted” would better read, “consoled”….
@sibbylwhyte s good. Yes it’s been good the $ß lady!
@sambrightomo life is priceless my brother. God grant them peace and rest Amen
@raymond here is incomplete without minds like you.
@francis my guy you’re able!
@Kaycee respect
@dottaraphels let’s keep candles burning in prayers dear.
@louis Lactoo I am O sita di mma, o diri gawa of A makeze ata, o ma duo!