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For J.T Tom-West
(A Poem From a Fan)
When the news came that unfaithful day:
“A Nollywood actor died in auto crash”
Little did I think it was true
Let alone being you, J.T Tom-West.
I cannot realize how I felt
But I remembered I took the news, yes the news,
To friends whose solace turned solitude.
They remember you through
One of your famous films
That brought you fame in Nollywood:
“State of Emergency”.
But I was surrounded with grief of this
Like a town of Odi or Ekiti
Surrounded by armed forces.
I admired you not like a suitor
To his mistress, but like
A solicitor to his shelves of books,
Albeit just like a dew you vanished,
And hadn’t we the time to meet.
Now I am married to memories:
Sweet and bitter tales of life;
Memories of how life could be fine
And funny: your exit from this world-less cave
Is painful!
This is a road we iterate must journey
But every wayfarer comes home with different news.
Yours is bitter, dying in the land of plenary
But where lack of macadam maintenance
And lack of intense hospital equipment
Have many men seen their untimely deaths.
You would not have died! But what can I do?
I discern you cry. I discern you feel bad.
And I wish I could grow to a god.
Just bear it,
We all, dead and alive, hope like the phoenix.
Copyright 2006 Prince Odimegwu Onwumere
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Odimegwu Onwumere
Odimegwu Onwumere, a poet and an author, is the Founder, Poet Against Child Abuse (PACA), Rivers State , Nigeria . +2348032552855. apoet25@yahoo.com
If it's prose, he writes stories,
If it's poetry, he writes poems,
If it's drama, he writes screenplays,
And he has achieved some poetry nominations, in the USA and in Canada. He was born in Accra Ghana. A Nigerian by origin and is in his early thirties.
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