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Just The Other Night; Fire Gone Wild In Ore By Dr. Soyombo Ayomikun

January 6, 2014

1.Just the other night I sat
   Together with a colleague in an emergency ward
   Reminiscing about life & love
   Suddenly the soft peace got shattered

1.Just the other night I sat
   Together with a colleague in an emergency ward
   Reminiscing about life & love
   Suddenly the soft peace got shattered

2.A distraught mother rushed in
   With burnt hands & eyes spilling tears
   After her appeared men carrying two children
   Both already severely burnt

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3.We were told the mother was in the kitchen
   Preparing dinner just after the yuletide celebrations
   Her stove of kerosene suddenly exploded
   Consuming her reasoning in a fiery blaze

4.Out of confusion & fear she threw the stove
   In a direction defined by her now autonomous hands
   Unknown to her two of her children were right there
   As burnt offerings the fire gutted their flesh

5.Mother screamed & neighbours poured in
   Rising to the rescue of the helpless children
   At the end of the hellish drama the children emerged
   As wounded souls from hell's very core

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6.In the emergency ward we dashed around
   Looking for equipments with which to salvage the dying souls
   As is usual in Nigerian hospitals we found close to nothing
   Our light bulbs were even asleep as power had gone

7.Thinking about all it dawned on me
   That 'Emergency Preparedness' is not a culture of Nigerian families
   When disaster finally strikes we go about seeking witches
   Generational enemies that must just be culprits

8.No soul prays for hazards but they just do happen
   Reason why we ought to harm our consciousness with the wisdom
   That when they do occur lives must be saved first
   Not the burning stoves,cars or houses

9.I encourage all families to have emergency plans
   That perhaps jokingly should be shared within your walls
   Plans about what to do when fire breaks out
   Or what to do when a child suddenly swallows a coin


10.We all can't be wise enough
     We all can't be cautious enough
     To save our families & the palaces we laboured for
     Just a little more of preparedness for the lurking evil would do

NB: this piece was inspired by two children who were victims of a fire disaster somewhere in Ore, Ondo State on 4th of Jan,2014....one survived,the other died.

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