I hear the thump thump sounds of\u00a0 strange drums.<\/p>\n
Faint sounds but getting louder with each new beat.<\/p>\n
These are no drums I knew.<\/p>\n
Not the sounds of the long drums accompanying a bridal party.<\/p>\n
Or the gangan celebrating a chieftaincy.<\/p>\n
It is not the ikpa, for no one died. No one that important anyways.<\/p>\n
These are neither happy nor sad sounds.<\/p>\n
Just of fear, a foreboding , a warning.<\/p>\n
Of a river of blood about to flow and of voices on the brink of a wail.<\/p>\n
Of vultures, circling, patient, waiting<\/p>\n
Like guests at a wedding about to feast.<\/p>\n
These are like no beats that I knew.<\/p>\n
These new drums are the drums of war.<\/p>\n
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