POEM: “Break the Chain” -A Complete Xray of Injustices in Igbo Land, the Giant of the World

Following the history of yester years, as how the much talked and drumed about giant of the world, race and her attributes, as well as  how a particular set and group of people has been relinquished to the background and backwardness of the still waters even in the 21st century of not only the world but in advancing and development-embracing Africa and the first of its nations in terms of international policy and much more, a notable and promising poet, Mass Communication Student and enthusiast of justice from one of the best tertiary institution in Nigeria, Miss Prayerlife O. Nwosu has taken the bull by the horn to expose the hidden through her best form of literay appreciation-Poem title “Break the Chain”

Take a Journey down the lines of the poem and know better the exposition and way forward to BREAK THE CHAIN…..

Break The Chain

I am a slave in my fatherland

Denied full right over leadership

Regarded unclean from a sacrificial linage

A forbidden slave from an ancient shrine

From an ancient culture I have become a taboo?

Isolated among the great tribe of Ibo

Ostracized and kept in a dark forest

I hear no one but murmuring trees.

I have become an outcast in my fatherland

Over the fetish ritual of my ancestors

Discriminated over the Osu cast system

Hated and rejected among my people

How have rituals of my ancestors become my sin?

Why am I punished over an ancient rule?

Am I still a son of your soil?

Why deny me access to my choice of spouse?

I am believed to bring calamity upon my people

Seen and recognized as a part of an ancestral deity

In a world of Christendom and love

Indeed my people are Christ like

I cry to my people and rulers of the land

Never to continue but break the chain

Let my generation be free from bondage

Equality before my people I seek.

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