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As part of the World Poetry Day commemoration today, Ghanaian poet Kwame Agyeman Berko has put together a poem to celebrate the late Ghanaian footballer Christian Atsu who died in last month\u2019s earthquake in Turkey.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The funeral for the footballer was held on Friday, March 17, 2023.<\/p>\n

Read Kwame Agyemang Berko\u2019s poem titled \u2018You\u2019re Home, Rest Easy\u2019 belo<\/strong><\/em>w:<\/p>\n

Your death was not by any grace.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And so we could not brace\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ourselves for the phrase\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cRest In Peace\u201d in our tributes of praise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Your being slayed under the Turkish pile\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of rubbish,\u00a0<\/p>\n

Would not let us tone down on your fetish\u00a0<\/p>\n

Of feeding multitudes with more than fish.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For this has been served too cold like the proverbial dish.\u00a0<\/p>\n

We might be on an intense whine,\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like you are our spine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Truth is, until this fatal crossed line,\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even you did not know you was a spine.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But now we know it all.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Too bad we bask in it after your fall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Short in life, you stood frighteningly tall.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And not because you just played ball.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Our national flag won\u2019t fly at half mast.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Because, the clowns don\u2019t know past\u00a0<\/p>\n

What rests in between their ears.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But you are a black star today and forever years!\u00a0<\/p>\n

You are back home, rest easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You are back home, and we feel dizzy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

You are back home, and it\u2019s not been easy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By: Kwame Agyemang Berko<\/p>\n

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