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Who Will Liberate Africa by Gentlebabs(m): 8:15pm On Aug 22, 2018 |
A Poem Dedicated To All Our Forefathers Who Perished In The Meditteranian Poem Title: Who Will Liberate Africa? Some have eyes Yet see not What do you see? An ocean? No A dead end The point of no return In search of answers To fill a void I journeyed into the sea Where our forefathers perished The greatest exodus on our continent A journey into the unknown Angry with the gods The rulers of the deep sea Tired of distortions and concoctions I journeyed to ask why? But why ask why? The Queens of the coast Prettier than most slay Queens Fair and attractive They beckoned on me Like the strip girls in Octopus In a bid to indulge Seduce and manipulate Come a little farther That we may commune You'll have all your answers And an urfogetable experience Ninety-Nine virgins awaits you Then we may speak At least for fair hearing and posterity Why we sank some and allowed others Tempted as i was I made to go further Until i heard the still voice Peace be still Your generation still needs you Lest you go as they went I made to ignore Until i saw a sign, a tainted pebble Soiled in that salty sea In the heart of Obama beach New name, same history Faraway in Cotonou My spirit connected with theirs Their pains in my heartua heard their wailings and gnashings Even after many years Their blood still speaks Seperated from their families Bound in chains and heated irons We tilled their lands Tended their plantations Cooked their foods Satisfied their libidos Yet they call us slaves Exchanged for mirrors Guns and jewellries Silenced for standing up Our virgins they defiled Yet they called us slaves Who will liberate Africa? From all opressions Where is our Moses? They called slaves And we act thus How do you explain brain drain Capital flight and insurections Sex for marks on campuses Thieves celebrated as heroes Total disregard for life I cry for Africa Who will save Africa From the slavery of corruption And the shackles of tribalism A coinage of the slavemasters Describing lower animals A continent so rich Yet so poor A people so endowed Yet depends on foreign aids Until we are totally emancipated From the mind Think unity and progress Build a future for the African child Our independence and education Resource and exposure Remains but a curse Other than blessings Babatunde Raimi (Author/Life Coach/Poet)
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Re: Who Will Liberate Africa by Hopebringer: 8:17pm On Aug 22, 2018 |
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