What will tomorrow bring to the transient imagery of our African dreams

In its pacing attitude with the sun and moon, blessing the earth with glittering silver linings and sprinkled angel dust; miracles and a hopeful touch through continental gates from east to east, when its form of dropping tears by watery path on the side of our face never stops flowing through generational eyes.


What will tomorrow bring when zombies in army guns parade the streets morning and night on the proud cities of Africa for flesh and blood when they should all be swallowed up by the ground.


What will tomorrow bring while we lay on beds made of stones pointed and rough, when those with seats soft and cushy, burying funds in banks, sure to die one day in a snap of death’s mighty gauntlet for they never blessed their motherland: remain in houses close to those built on sand and silt.


What will it bring for the bad eggs are still cracked to fry the epic Sunday meals

Bitterness still scars our taste buds the memories of gin mixed with vinegar when those we loved, those we rested our heads on their low and comfy shoulders left without last words in xenophobic wars, army guns, timed bombs before their time called the devil’s work or life’s way of saying we’ve all been cursed and coursed to feel pain and injustice without raising an arm.


What will tomorrow bring when the wind rustles the branches of a tall tree against one another, making them feel divided, as if they do not form one big canopy, or share in same flow of racial injustice said to be nutrient elements from those blessed before many moons, said to be nutrient-filled, when fo’real its acidity ruins many home grown stands.


For love and peace may cure the world well cooked, well booked

Yet tomorrow’s evil may scar us all fake smiling on a mask worn by faith by prayers made in churches and mosques.


What will tomorrow bring to our transient imagery of the African dream if all that is today is dealt with tomorrow?

Even if unknown, may the walls we fell be inscribed in many hearts forever.