by Osamuyi Okpame | |
Published on: Apr 19, 2008 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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It is nature’s clothing It is free, and free indeed! Not given by social status But as a gift It is the best cloth I have ever worn And it stays with me till the end of time Only people of this world Call it whatever they like They classify, discriminate and look down on it But the pure in heart sees beyond it And knows that the skin we wear Is but nature’s clothing That will be separated from us The day we depart from this world To the great beyond When we put nature’s clothing aside As nature beckons us to give it back Our being yearns for better clothing Only spiritually we become adorned Majestically into a new realm we walk Where the skin we wear is not important But our deeds long gone be brought forth To stand in judgement before us In testimony of our words and actions Life glows brilliantly in radiance With a pure and gentle heart But dims slowly With the wicked in heart When shall we realize? That the skin we have on is but nature’s clothing, Which will be taken back at the final moment Soon after we are dead Does it make sense? To prejudge somebody by the colour of the skin When we know well that the skin Is all but nature’s clothing Which we shall all give back in due course In the biological cycle of life Look down not on the colour of my skin For nature’s clothing can not be despised It’s a gift to be honoured and cherished By all that know the essence and worth of life Search forth the heart And exhume the darkest thoughts therein Away with it And in fairness climb swiftly Never to return to that part so dreaded In the deepest archive of the soul Manifested through the colour of the skin. « return. |