Through The Wuhan Gate (The Third World War)

Through the Wuhan gate

Comes a little foe roaring at our fate

It is pandemic

Alas, these tears amidst men’s panic

 

Through the Wuhan gate

Life is in sour state

Oh yes, the mightiests are falling!

And now, the nighties are wailing!

 

Through the Wuhan gate

The earth readies for its healing pill

Cities’ lives so must wait

For the bruised world must at last heal

 

Through the Wuhan gate

Now has come the Third World War

It is not man against man

It is man against a Corona roar

Oswald Okaitei © 2020

 

Oswald Okaitei is a multi-award winning young Ghanaian poet, spoken word artiste and a playwright.  He is currently a World Poetry Director in Ghana and has eight poetry collections to his credit. As one of the finest and promising fresh breaths to poetry spoken word, he has shared performing platforms with poetry /spoken word legends as Prof. Atukwei Okai, Prof. Kofi Anyidoho, Muta Baruka, Rocky Dawuni, among others. He is noted to be transforming classical poems into stage drama having stringed different-themed poems of Prof. Lade Wosornu, Prof. Kofi Awoonor, Prof. Kofi Anyidoho and Dr. Mawuli Adjei to the admiration of several audiences. Oswald represented Ghana at the 2016 Storymoja Festival in Kenya and Babishai Poetry Festival in Uganada. In 2016, he was adjudged the Pan-African Poet/Spoken word artiste in Ghana.

This poem comes at the time when the whole world come together as one people in a common fight—against one common foe, Coronavirus (COVID-19).