THE GREAT DIVIDER
Thousands of years ago
Before we touched the world
Our fathers felt a need
That spanned beyond learning
And extended the realms of curiosity
It was a search for tenable answers
To questions that still disturb us
The theories we expounded
To attempt insoluble puzzles
Left trails of confusion
As to the river of existence
The permanent lacunae
The horizonless horizon
Led us to a dilemmic juncture
To the left there was no river
On the right a sinuous stream
Some steps shunned the stream
Others plunged into its intricacies
In the bid to unveil its mysteries
There arose the Great Divider
Like a flashlight of diverse rays
She seemed to clear all doubts
We then called her “religion”
The endless ladder to God
One could say she was harmless
She had always been
Till the day of her exaltation
When we sacrificed our brethren
On the altars of our differences
Forgetting the essence of humanity
Is in living and dying for each other
And to all worshippers is one river
Enjoyed through diverse lenses
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Chuks Obi is a law student at the University of Ibadan. He has written poems and articles which have been published in magazines and anthologies, both online and in print. His poems fulfill a duty to humanity; soothing wounds with the wonders of words.
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