John Chinaka Onyeche: Birds Without Nests
Image: Unsplash, downloaded https://unsplash.com/photos/tV12NVunWrQ (18.4.2021.) MY ANCESTORS ANXIOUSNESS
In their anxiousness to win favours,
In the eyes of the navigators, men across the sea
They gave them our most valued possessions
Our young and vibrant men and women
The strength of our fatherland,
Even the gods were silent and blind
Remembering not our dances at the full moon
And we became like birds without nests
For the prince over the sea foresees
My ancestors and t
