Whatever happened <br />To the poets of Uganda? <br />In the meantime – <br />We were as perfect as their bones could predict <br />We could not squander what they did not achieve <br />They heavy dead <br />We light and loving <br /> <br />Too human for politics <br />Deaf to abasement, to dictator’s fame <br />To the cackle of the fisted man <br />In the hours of giving <br /> <br />Please live with us, they say <br />Please touch us lovingly <br /> <br />I will be a husband to my brothers <br />Give you passion gently <br />Dwelling at your beauty <br />For all our poet-sakes.<br /><br />Frank Bana<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poets-of-uganda-1976/
