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PETALS IN THE MORNING SUN (by EOPP 2014 1st Prize Winner Darlington Ekene Ogugua)
I Much have we traversed this bleak terrain, With jaded winds bathing our eyelids And sand grains from once-lush fields Lodging within the caves of our hearts; Hearts, dense with crimson tears Shed by eyes scarred by inequity; Hearts, scorched by black lies Told by tongues of today's truants. Lit