by Awa Innocent Ndah | |
Published on: Feb 5, 2007 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
https://www.tigweb.org/express/panorama/article.html?ContentID=10559 | |
Pillars of the earth indeed Pillars made up of rootless and deficient replicas? Roots, ruthlessly deprives of the strings they need to hold the earth, its dreams and its tomorrow? A foundation built on the cast topography of ceaseless blood thirsty vampires proudly dressed in borrowed robes, ignorantly wallowing the abyss of nothingness in transparent suits and happy to be plastering the philosophies of their makers with their unfriendly steel. Flogged and blinded by the sharp sands of the Sahara, eroded by the bogus prowess of the tropical rains, frozen by the deadly wind of our Alps, the supposed guardians have metamorphosed into mirages without a reflection of their own zombies of a nameless vision shadows of a hypothetical tomorrow forcefully prowling the dry surface of the earth without a compass and savouring the mockery of the skies. Caricatures. Let them write the history of their ignorance on our breeders, dramatized the literature of their breeders here and composed lyrics of praise to us. Though the earth gets heavier And our stability and existence threatened, Though they gets more foxy and ferocious, remember that we are not only the pillars of a ramshackle tent scatteredly roofed but we are also the pillars of heaven yet to unleash the forty days fluid. « return. |