We are the Africans <br />We rose with the sun and fell with the rain, <br />Stood with the hills <br />And danced with the forest- <br />when life sang her song. <br /> <br />In the comfort of our huts and <br />thatch we sprung. <br /> <br />We are the Africans- <br />the paragons of nature- <br />Seemingly cursed by her grace; <br />Yet we live- blessed by the sun. <br /> <br />We are the Africans <br />“Never hide behind the curtains” <br />Queen Kahina would say. <br />“Peacocks are always proud, <br /> Lions are never afraid, <br />And eagles are strong.” <br /> <br />We are the Africans <br />Sing us a good song and we will dance to it by the fireside <br />Sit by us and we will sing you stories of spiders; <br />to your awe <br /> <br />We are the Africans <br />The leopard never looses its spots <br />So our baroness stays for ever in our curtain ebony laces- <br />However brutalized it may seem. <br /> <br />And we will always be the Africans <br />Seated at the peak of King Khufu’s pyramids in Giza- <br />singing- living- dreaming.<br /><br />konye ori<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-are-the-africans/
