Awake mother Africa, awake <br />For you lie asleep for long <br />Your future is in the balance <br />And your dignity fades away with the passing of the days <br />Your children are blindfolded <br />And we trail destruction in ignorance <br />Each day, Mother Africa; <br />A layer of your beautiful clothing is molted away <br />Your heritage escapes the present generation <br />And the heroism of the land seems to have perished <br />with the death of your first sons <br />Mother <br />Are we truely your children; <br />And yet we show no resemblance? <br />Are we of your lineage; <br />And yet we are world apart? <br />Awake from your slumber Mother Africa, awake <br />Lest your children perish.<br /><br />Bartholomew Arkoh Boamah Sarbah<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/awake-mother-africa/
