We have come home <br />From the bloodless wars <br />With sunken hearts <br />Our booths full of pride- <br />From the true massacre of the soul <br />When we have asked <br />‘What does it cost <br />To be loved and left alone' <br /> <br />We have come home <br />Bringing the pledge <br />Which is written in rainbow colours <br />Across the sky-for burial <br />But is not the time <br />To lay wreaths <br />For yesterday's crimes, <br />Night threatens <br />Time dissolves <br />And there is no acquaintance <br />With tomorrow <br /> <br /> <br />The gurgling drums <br />Echo the stars <br />The forest howls <br />And between the trees <br />The dark sun appears. <br /> <br />We have come home <br />When the dawn falters <br />Singing songs of other lands <br />The death march <br />Violating our ears <br />Knowing all our loves and tears <br />Determined by the spinning coin <br /> <br />We have come home <br />To the green foothills <br />To drink from the cup <br />Of warm and mellow birdsong <br />‘To the hot beaches <br />Where the boats go out to sea <br />Threshing the ocean's harvest <br />And the hovering, plunging <br />Gliding gulls shower kisses on the waves <br /> <br />We have come home <br />Where through the lighting flash <br />And the thundering rain <br />The famine the drought, <br />The sudden spirit <br />Lingers on the road <br />Supporting the tortured remnants of the flesh <br />That spirit which asks no favour of the world <br />But to have dignity.<br /><br />African Poems<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lenrie-peter-we-have-come-home/
