One Year Ago...

Copyright: Chika Okeke-Agulu

One year ago, today, you left. 

I am, Still picking the shards 

Awaiting your midnight call

In Memoriam: Dennis Brutus (1924-2009)

Farewell firebrand
and lyrical daredevil
whose campfire burned
Apartheid's homestead

Go well, insolent poet
and radical prisoner
who hurled words
at the world's insanity

Safe journey!
transcendent traveler
incandescent light
in heaven's conscience