Ode
to Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302
Ghelawdewos Araia, PhD
March 13, 2019
Oh! What a day is Sunday,
March Ten, Two Thousand Nineteen
A world-wide tragedy to die
with flying machine and gasoline
Accursed day that claimed a hundred fifty seven
lives caused by flight control problem in mid-air
That made me so sad and
emotional and forced me to utter, ‘life is not
fair’
Passengers eaten by a
defective Boeing 737 Max Eight
All helpless, let alone change
the course of distraught
The plane made unusual noise
in anticipation of destruction
It was wallowing like a
disturbed bird headed for shattering demolition
It fell to the ground straight
down
And buried the victims in a
thirteen meters deep ground hole
Created by the impact of the
vulture machine bowl
Before the final crash, I
heard the cry of the passengers
And then followed a huge
blast, twice
My heart goes out to all the
victims of Flight 302
My heart bleeds; my soul is
tormented for Three O Two
I cry for humanity
Not for a single nationality
I cry for Flight 302
passengers from thirty-five nations
A multicultural and
multilingual of travelers cut off from their
destinations
I cry for humanity
For those who were terrified
in mid-air
For all who encountered
physical anguish and death
Oh! Sunday, March Ten, Two
Thousand Nineteen
A day that swallowed
passengers in a pit of meters thirteen
For all Ethiopians engaged in
ethnocentric politics and skirmishes
Ethiopian Flight 302 is a
grand prophetic sign to stop tribal clashes
By way of bidding farewell to
the dead of Ethiopian Flight 302
I say, let that dreadful
ground be converted into a shrine
To remember the victims, their
names written in golden alphabets
So that they glitter forever
and shine
May the soul of the passengers
of Flight 302 rest in peace and tranquility
And their loved ones get
solace in repose and serenity!
Note: The passengers of
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 were from Austria,
Belgium, Britain, Canada, China, Djibouti, Egypt,
Ethiopia, France, Germany, India, Indonesia,
Israel, Italy, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nepal,
Nigeria, Norway, Poland, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi
Arabia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Somalia, Sudan,
Sweden, Togo, United States, and Yemen.
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