An Unwanted Call That Smashed Innocent Lives
for the victims that lost their lives during the New Kru Town stampede- 01/17/2022
By Sunny Eddie Crawford
on a slippery night, we lost souls digging after forgiveness from a broken tsunami into the heart
of New Kru Town,
then a forfeiting chaos ruptures into blooming shadows
of innocent people, a rejected stone sworn by the sinful past of believers
that has traveled miles from homes,
outshining hope like rending the face of God for his mercy, grace, miracle, & protection.
as hours flipped by, the eleventh prime meridian harmattan wind overflows the warm
atmosphere,
it broke wings before morning came,
fleeing an abnormal community massacred &
left for dead in a field of cold blood.
A familiar Monday crusade that stooped to refresh lives has been subsided
by waves of stampede; a memory thrives on our soil from afar like deadly pandemics printed its
darkest moment, a new page of your country’s broken history.
BIO:
Sunny Eddie Crawford, a disciple of Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and a member of the Young Scholars of Liberia (YSL) writes from Monrovia, Liberia. His works have been forthcoming as in: Kalahari Review(KR), Agape Review, Ducor Review, Love from home & Uncaged love (Chapbooks published by the Liberian Poet Society), Ngagi Review, Spillwords, Orange blog Africa, Cutthroat(A Journal of the Art), and the We Write Liberia website. Twitter handle: @SunnyEddieCraw3 Instagram: desun101
on a slippery night, we lost souls digging after forgiveness from a broken tsunami into the heart
of New Kru Town,
then a forfeiting chaos ruptures into blooming shadows
of innocent people, a rejected stone sworn by the sinful past of believers
that has traveled miles from homes,
outshining hope like rending the face of God for his mercy, grace, miracle, & protection.
as hours flipped by, the eleventh prime meridian harmattan wind overflows the warm
atmosphere,
it broke wings before morning came,
fleeing an abnormal community massacred &
left for dead in a field of cold blood.
A familiar Monday crusade that stooped to refresh lives has been subsided
by waves of stampede; a memory thrives on our soil from afar like deadly pandemics printed its
darkest moment, a new page of your country’s broken history.
BIO:
Sunny Eddie Crawford, a disciple of Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and a member of the Young Scholars of Liberia (YSL) writes from Monrovia, Liberia. His works have been forthcoming as in: Kalahari Review(KR), Agape Review, Ducor Review, Love from home & Uncaged love (Chapbooks published by the Liberian Poet Society), Ngagi Review, Spillwords, Orange blog Africa, Cutthroat(A Journal of the Art), and the We Write Liberia website. Twitter handle: @SunnyEddieCraw3 Instagram: desun101
