For ousmane Sembene and the Africa he hoped for
mother weeps
tears heated by
hardship years
another son lost
under the sun of her
native land
i sit still and think
a reverie into last night
when the dew was still
gathered on the grasses
and the smiling moon
kept watch over her cousins
when there where still myths
and tales
when the forest dogs laughed
from the sinister darkness
and Ousmane told us a story
a tale of a distant land
a land that was white washed
with waters from western shore
but drew forth from within
the strenght
only known to the black
and conquered
eons of oppression
and at the end stood unfettered
we laughed and smiled
mother still weeps
i know why she cries
she knows not
which of her children
is next
i fear to weep
knowing he is at a place now
where there are
no whites
and no blacks
just people
Poetry by Awenlimobor Sylvester
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Written on 2007-06-12 at 13:34
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My Mother weeps!
mother weeps
tears heated by
hardship years
another son lost
under the sun of her
native land
i sit still and think
a reverie into last night
when the dew was still
gathered on the grasses
and the smiling moon
kept watch over her cousins
when there where still myths
and tales
when the forest dogs laughed
from the sinister darkness
and Ousmane told us a story
a tale of a distant land
a land that was white washed
with waters from western shore
but drew forth from within
the strenght
only known to the black
and conquered
eons of oppression
and at the end stood unfettered
we laughed and smiled
mother still weeps
i know why she cries
she knows not
which of her children
is next
i fear to weep
knowing he is at a place now
where there are
no whites
and no blacks
just people
Poetry by Awenlimobor Sylvester
Read 459 times
Written on 2007-06-12 at 13:34
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