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| Gabriel Okara |
By Gabriel Okara
Look!
Look out there
in the bucket
the rusty bucket
with water unclean
Look!
A luminous plate is floating –
the moon, dancing to the gentle night wind
Look! All you who shout across the wall
with a million hates.
Look at the dancing moon
It is peace unsoiled by the murk
And dirt of this bucket war.
This poem shows the poet's deep concern for the violence and ravages of war and the destruction of human life. Ordinarily a quiet and peace loving man, situations like these sharpened his longing for harmony and his hatred for the divisions that plague human relationships. The use of the moon here symbolizes peace and concord.
Today, it has become common knowledge that the Boko Haram insurgency has claimed the lives and properties of many. But the worse part of these stories is that innocent people and children are usually the victims of these needless killings. TOO BAD.
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