give a Liberian boy a border, he will cross and put curse on this country
Jeremy Karn
it’s a hard day in my country, today.
our people are no strangers to the tongues
of grief
that at least every wall
still holds the wounds of the civil war
it managed to survive.
we were a great nation that war
remote. overshadowed. & spelled.
even now we do not need
to travel through history to know
what happened during the civil war
we look at the survivors
there are enough prints of brokenness
that captured their bodies
i’m learning how to grow my uncle’s story into a poem
who had to choose between short and long sleeves
& that’s how his hand got amputated.
*the rebels could cut off hands to shoulder level if you accept long sleeve and to elbow level if you say short sleeve .
About The Author
Emmanuel G G Yamba writes from Liberia. His works has been featured and forthcoming in Salamander ink, Odd magazine, Kalahari Review, Afro Rep, An anthology for Abunic and elsewhere.