by Ayo Adedapo | |
Published on: Aug 12, 2006 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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Our own Africa Like others I click thy uniqueness Africa And every of thy positive native Tenets I nurture till thy printable Structure shall sail by Relatives, friends and loyalists Above the burden and havoc Of Ruiners' responsibility And destroyers' decency From tyranny Thy provenance paved thy present In it thy agents conceived And evolved thy constituents But thy moral children Oh Africa Forbid thy extinction In maiming mutilation And numberless annihilation And massive miseries Today social distress Guards thy nest with inferno Opprobrium postulates principles Thou should adopt and adapt To for better bitterness In this peerless Pains Darling Africa Even as prognosis Discards thy sick status Our faith and work Shall suppress thy death Shall resolve thy miseries Shall dissolve thy crises Heroic Africa Resourceful Africa Thy doom shall reset to boom And boom decimate its doom No counterpart Dictates thy deeds Unless in collaborative Trade for thy vision And no child forfeits thy mission With affective air of fake redemption When coming moments Demand new songs From Wale's poetic idealism The weighty substance Of tomorrow Africa Shall alter my tone. « return. |