FWD : Charlie Kirk - Poem by Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA
Cornelius Hamelberg
Charlie Kirk - Poem by Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA
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He stood
Atop a supremacist podium,
Handsome in flesh
But hideous in spirit,
Delivering hideous messages.
Hypnotized humans
Huddled
At the foot of the podium
Listening to his hideous messages.
Humanity is one,
Yet Charlie Kirk divided humanity
On the basis of skin colours
And stained the skin colours
He didn't like with inferiority.
The sound of gunshots,
The pandemonium,
The yell,
The splash of blood
And the security show off.
A horrendous human
Holding a gun
Kicked Charlie Kirk to hades
And kicked his hideous messages
Off the supremacist podium.
None deserves violent death,
Reincarnation is real,
Charlie Kirk will reincarnate
To make amends.
Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM, CDOA
Sunday, September 14, 2025
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Oluwatoyin Adepoju
Beautiful
Cornelius Hamelberg
Vintage Chidi Anthony Opara,
on the side of humanity,
a powerful, uncompromising,
daring, unafraid, outspoken,
courageous voice for the otherwise
voiceless, powerless, afraid.
“hideous” occurs four times
“Handsome in flesh
But hideous in spirit,
Delivering hideous messages.
Hypnotized humans Huddled
At the foot of the podium
Listening to his hideous messages”
“A horrendous human
Holding a gun
Kicked Charlie Kirk to hades
And kicked his hideous messages
Off the supremacist podium.”
Reminds me of the beginning of another song :
'Twas in another lifetime, one of toil and blood
When blackness was a virtue, the road was full of mud
I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form
"Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm"
And another place and time,
“holy the unknown buggered and suffering beggars
holy the hideous human angels!
Holy my mother in the insane asylum!
Holy the cocks of the grandfathers of Kansas!”
When it comes to the man behind the poetry
it’s refreshing to intuit Chidi’s generosity of spirit
in line with Paul’s poetic 1 Corinthians chapter 13
A generosity of spirit which is neither vindictive
nor vengeful, a generosity of spirit which does not
consign Charlie to the flames of a well-deserved or
undeserved eternal hellfire, for lo, there is that ray of hope
by which Chidi wishes to enlighten Charlie’s redemption
through another lifecycle, another chance
in that final line, for as decreed by Chidi
“Reincarnation is real,
Charlie Kirk will reincarnate
To make amends.”
Indeed, will reincarnate, to repent and to make amends
since the world is the classroom, in which we are presently
to square off with this question: “Are your lessons learned?”
Others are weighing in, less poetically on Charlie Kirk :
No flags flying at half mast for the latest statistics of the martyrs at Gaza :
Shahid Bolsen on the Charlie Kirk Assassination
Democracy Now : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8HUoAn-4g
Chris Hedges : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf7zr5Thz64
STATE OF THE NATION | What now America? | After Kirk with Chris Hedges and Jackson Hinkle
Dr. Oohay
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