Will South Africans let 27 years of Madiba Mandela’s <br />life wash down the Orange River like an orange peel? <br /> <br />Will the naked witty words that land on the Afro-beats of <br />Abami-Eda Fela be left to inspire the hills to a dance of truth? <br /> <br />Will Bishop Tutu’s white dove be chased from the olive tree with sticks and stones? <br />And will the greens of Wangari Mathaai be left to rust? <br /> <br />Will the writings of Achebe, Soyinka, Sehene, Kofi and <br />other great literary minds be left to the trees to read? <br /> <br />Will the legislatives of Oliver Tambo, Rotimi Williams, Kuenyehia <br />and other learned fellows be left to rats, cats and lizards to uphold? <br /> <br />Will the tears and blood of Rwandans, Sudanese, Congolese <br />and Somalia’s be washed with more? <br /> <br />When elephants have lost weight from worrying about our tomorrow- <br />What is left of the Antelope? <br /> <br />When you see lion’s cry at the state of Africa, you wonder what tears will be left in <br />the eyes of the crickets. <br /> <br />Even eagles cannot see why- <br />a new leaf in our rough African book cannot be turned.<br /><br />konye ori<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/even-eagles-cannot-see/
