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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_2883" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-2883" style="width: 436px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.wordpress.com/2012/12/31/if-only/if-only/#main" rel="attachment wp-att-2883"><img class="wp-image-2883 " title="If Only" alt="If Only" src="http://poetry.wrr.ng/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/if-only.jpg" width="436" height="307" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-2883" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[If Only]</strong></figcaption></figure>Themselves they waged war against<br>
Placing a rift between themselves<br>
Their fingers they consider as meat<br>
To see their blood is their life’s love;
<p>Apart, themselves they tore<br>
Assuming positions so parallel;<br>
Amongst themselves they war<br>
Out, themselves, they are determined to level;</p>
<p>They war on the trail<br>
The trail of the line<br>
The line that stood between them<br>
And introduce the language ‘mine’;</p>
<p>Larger than them is its stem<br>
The flame they ignited soon overwhelmed them,<br>
It burned and burned<br>
They stood pruned, consumed;</p>
<p>Their buds blossom<br>
Into flowers they grow<br>
They try to poison the xylem<br>
So the tracks by action they shall never blow…</p>
<p>…If only we can wave them aside<br>
And beside them bury their hatred’s seed<br>
We shall no longer suffer for what we know not<br>
And strife we’ll stamp out.</p>
<p style="text-align:right;">Written by: <strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Hotyz" target="_blank">Alozor Michael Ikechukwu</a></strong><br>
Edited by: <strong>Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</strong></p>
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