Bridge, a poem by Christopher Okigbo

Bridge

I am standing above you and tide

above the noontide,

Listening to the laughter of waters

that do not know why:

Listening to incense…

I am standing above the noontide

with my head above it,

Under my feet float the waters:

tide blows them under.

Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo was born in 1930. He was a Nigerian poet and he is today widely acknowledged as one of the most outstanding postcolonial English-language African poets and one of the major modernist writers of the twentieth century. He died in 1967 while fighting for the independence of Biafra.