Oh Africa! <br />When your vision is in tandem <br />with your new political will to seek <br /> clear prehistoric fountains of hope <br />shall flow with passion to obliterate <br />the ills of greed, pillage, inhumanity <br />of years of rape and inhuman slavery <br />and focus with clarity into the future <br /> <br />Your bangs of slavery begot colonialism <br />this invited neocolonialism to dinner <br />where greed fragmented your lands <br />your hopes and dreams in blatant disregard <br />to your creed, socio-cultural affinities <br />your ethos and eroded your values <br />with strange tongues and feuds <br /> <br />Oh! Africa! <br />When you resist their beckoning evil urges <br />and insatiate hunger for subtle greed <br /> they sowed the seed of insane hatred <br />termed you land of hunger, poverty, disease <br /> but we see through their furtive glances <br />of impatience for more exploitative trysts <br />for we know better than that what they call you <br /> <br />Oh Africa! <br />Now is the time to unite as one <br />there is no other ideal time to start <br />a journey of a thousand miles <br />starts with that uncertain false steps <br />of a toddler fraught with falls and cries <br />the strength of the chain is its weakest link <br />United we stand passionate or die trying <br /> <br />And I see a new Africa <br />and a new people of conscience <br />for the vent of a new wind of change <br />is now tilted within reach of the meek <br />and the downtrodden imprisoned <br />by walls of societal false sense of value <br />to ascend the true throne of prominence <br />for God does not work with weaklings! <br /> <br />Oh Africa! You show plenty of signs <br />that you are on the right track and <br />beginning to overcome many of your problems <br />your tinny breast once beleaguered by poverty and war <br />is now clean, safe and enjoying economic growth <br />more than twice as fast as the U.S. or Europe <br />Oh Africa! Feel the signs of a turnaround <br />and plenty of reason for optimism and hope <br /> <br />Now is the time <br />To dig the mine!<br /><br />Dela Bobobee<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/africa-must-unite/
