Original Sin

By John Chinaka Onyeche

WHISPERS OF HOME: A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME AND STRUGGLE

Our father who art in heaven, what we are leaving behind
will never wait for us.
- Rcome Oriogun
On a train station in Brooklyn, 1800,
A traveller whispered to me about home:
We boarded at a place where he called Haven,
At the top of his vocal cords, at the station.
Here, he declared that home was built in a day,
& that it houses the blood of the innocents.
When I turned to look at his home in 1900,
He wore the skin of them who tilled the land,
Where their broken & bruised palms
Still are saying; guide us home in safety.
But every trace of home is on the running feet,
& you know this in the language of their letters.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F482QLKX
• ISBN13: 9798317218072
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 70 Pages
• Weight: 0.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"