Echoes from the Pit: A Cavalcade of Poems and Reflections

By Christopher Ugo Dike MD MLCPS

Life is a marathon which the students of parallelism and antitheses views as a continuum of phases intertwined. Existence is dependent purely on the antithetical and hypothetical conflicts of Nature and Nurture whose resolution defines our lives and finds expressions in our everyday relationships.

The echoes from the pit is the reflections of a soul going through the tortuous course of life. It is the cries of anguish, hopelessness, despair, shame, and pain. It is the joy of hope, relief, glory and faith.

It echoes cries against deceits, hypocrisies and other vices of oppressions perpetuated by heinous slave masters often hiding behind the veil of the egocentric, egotist, self-centered and selfish nature of man.

It is the synopsis of life

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press AU
• Release date: Jun 29, 2022
• ISBN: 9781982295004

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ECHOES

from

THE PIT

A cavalcade of poems and reflections

CHRISTOPHER UGO DIKE MD, MLCPS

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ISBN: 978-1-9822-9499-1 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-9822-9500-4 (e)

Balboa Press rev. date: 06/17/2022

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Dedication

Acknowledgement

Preface

Introduction

SECTION ONE: PHILOSOPHIES

• Pilgrimage

• Despair

• Voyage

• Stooping Low

• My Mausoleum

• See Saw

• Money

• De Javu

• Perez [Breakthrough]

• The Toil

• The Bridge

• El Mande [The Heart]

• The Dog

• The Whore

• Impunity

• Fan

• The Windows

• The Void

• Paradox

• Grace

• I

• Epitaph

• Obiageli [Obiaderi]

• Limbo

• Reality

• Life

• The Loin’s Serpent

• Hope

• Mirage

• Hypocrisy

• Feminine Whispers

• The Zealot

• Unsung Heroes

• No

• Celestial

• Inferno

SECTION TWO: RELATIONSHIPS

• Trucebreak

• The Blizzards Voice (Hypocrisy)

• The Fool’s Gallow

• The Swine (Pig)

• Mr. All, My Boss

• The Brood

• The Butterfly

• The Fox 1

• The Fox 2

• The Apparel

• The Matriach

• The Serpent

• Mino

SECTION THREE: WOMEN

• Maima

• Myopia

• She

• The Heat

• Treasure

• The Rose

• My Pearl

• Ade Mi

• My Crown Jewel

• Love

• Evenett

• Infatuations

• Broken Cistern

• The Falter

SECTION FOUR: SOCIAL COMMENTARY

• Chains

• Saboteur

• Igbanke

• Oppressors

• Bat

• Nana

• Malady of Zaire

• The Rigmarole

• Blasphemy

SECTION FIVE: PERSONALS

• Demise

• Nnem: My Mother

• Ugegbe Na Atukpa (The Glorious Mirror and Lantern of My Lineage)

• Ugochukwu

• Sweet Sixteen

• Adeola

• Fooling April Fool

• The Phoenix (Mother)

• Primus

• The Nephrologist

• Anniversaries

DEDICATION

To God the Father Author of life, wellspring and fountain of Wisdom

To God the Son Redeemer, Ransom and Purchaser of my wretched soul

To God the Holy Spirit, Strength, breathe and source of my being

To my Late Parents Elder Pius and Deaconess/Prophetess Lucy Dike, the vehicle of my existence

To my beloved wife, Mrs. Comfort Adeola Ugo-Dike succor and balm in my turbulence

To my friends and Foes, my teachers and inspirations

And to life’s storms, wings to soar in the heavens

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Life is incomplete without interactions, I am a product of the multiple influences that shape me. This work would have not seen the light of day without the toil and sweats of people often obscure and working behind the scene. Some sowed their seed without knowing where it fruits and therefore I must give them their deserve due

To my Disciplers: Bro. Tayo and Sis. Jumoke Akinola of Revival Labor, Liberia, my spur and hands of stability, without you I would have strayed and am forever grateful.

Special notice must be given to my former boss and colleagues: Susan Ofor-Ata in Ghana and Earl N. Caldwell 11 of Loyola University, Chicago the grits that formed me.

I am eternally indebted to my love and treasure Comfort Adeola Ugo-Dike who believed, trusted, encouraged and sacrificed for me to see this work complete.

I sincerely appreciate Adrian Ellis, publishing consultant of Balboa press, a division of Hay House Australia, and all the entire staff of Balboa press and Hay House who work round the clock to see this work published.

How can I forget my beloved Sis. Dayo Oke of the West African College of Surgeons, who proofread and edited the work, the sister who chopped off my excesses and refined my crude talents.

Special gratitude to all my professional colleagues, proctors and teachers in the Liberian college of Physician and surgery, West African College of Physicians and the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Medical Center, Monrovia, Departments of Internal Medicine who spurred me to complete this work.

To those people numerous, who I could not mention by name but were the unsung heroes and heroines who held, steadied my hands and were sources