Elmina Castle, point of no return <br />I was there in the Cape Coast <br />Deep in the heart of Gold Coast <br />The ancient castle of slavery <br />Where deeds and misdeeds were committed <br />A castle where blacks were sold, <br />Chained, brutalised, depraved, <br />Beaten to death and fed to fishes <br />That's Elmina Castle <br />A Castle where man's mind was seared <br />Where my ancestors were squeezed <br />Through an apperture of no return <br />Where they were verified through Atlantic <br />Never to be seen again by their kinsmen <br />Elmina Castle, the place where blacks disappeared<br /><br />Babatunde Aremu<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/point-of-no-return-i/
