Jumamosi, 12 Mei 2018

WHAT IS THIS, BIAFRA?

WHAT IS THIS, BIAFRA ?

A peaceful land invaded with riots
Riots against disapproval mankind
Riots to return the promised land
A land bleeding and raining blood
Blood of innocent, bruises of crowd.

Shrieks and shreds, mankind mutilation
Shrews all over the shaking entire lands
That freedom raped and stolen in vain
Freedom freedom, a song of endless
Creedal novenas to let peace reign.

That a mankind finds refuge in peace
Is an adage and hopeless to reveal
Why intervention to distort mankind?
Why intervention to resort bloodshed?
Killing and deserting the pearl of peace?

Once patriarchy nocks at neighbourhood
We all feel the internal restlessness
Once peace is mixed with wars
We all walk in terror and death
Die a little, for the poor survival.

Why creating the iron hand to kill?
We are already crippled and needy
And you want to cut our flesh
And drink blood from sunken
We are innocent and tired
Tired of smelling blood
Blood of our sons and daughters
Our tales have turned to dirges
Covering our smiles like masks.

Jumamosi, 5 Mei 2018

TELL ME AFRICA

TELL ME AFRICA

Africa, Africa of Magnificence
Africa told behind stories
Stories of bitter and sweet
Immemorial Africa you are
Paramount, Africa you are.

It's in you that we're made
It's in you that we cherish
Pride of greatness chaste
Cries rise, cries sweeten
Like lions of jungle fields
We walk twisting our tails.

Tell me Africa, tell me Africa
Africa, the pride of ancestor
Africa walking in bone marrow
Africa circulating in blood veins
Africa controlling the heartbeats
Africa of unusual magnanimity.

Tell me Africa, tell me Africa
Bizarrely I sighted you in horizons
Twisting the binocular for clear sight
I saw cloud cover hiding you behind
Behind the gorgeous sight of delight
Bitterness invaded sweetness beside.

Tears falling down my watery cheeks
For I found that you're the public sight
Public serenity to hold pinches of nose
You're the deserted, abandoned orphan
You're told behind stories of barbaric.

Africa, the industry of splendid artefact
Africa, the own despising and ignorant
They say, you're not a civilized being
They say, they find comfort beyond
Africa, collect your chicks behold
Underneath your mightier wing.