"Procession"

In Memory of Ken Saro-Wiwa
 
     
 

 by Pat Boran
 

 

     
 

 You sent me letters I never answered,
books I never even opened,
music I neither played nor heard;
you and your brothers and your sisters,
you sent me maps of your homeland,
pictures of your loved and lost ones,
paintings of your dreams.

I never looked with love on any of them.

What I was doing it is hard to say;
but as the days shrugged off their names
and the weeks filed past, staggered past
like men in chains, you
were sitting on your bunks among
the spirits of the dead who consoled,
ambiguously, Your day will come.
 
     
     

 

 

 "Procession" © 1996 by Pat Boran
 
     
 

 Original Graphic © 1996 by Jim Davis-Rosenthal
 

 

 

 Read Ken Saro-Wiwa's Statement Before Execution

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