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His Wealth 2

our children dacing dacing at the sight of lighted bulbs like when the eclipse occured but their hope dashed but his wealth is intact for his greatest grand children children that are more equal more equal than the others our mouths now salivates on seeing mere nuts like dogs for bones bones of our lost sons sons last seen on april april of the pools pools of ballots ballots of inec our stomach now speak speak like the dogs dogs that came beyond the sea but they have learnt learnt to look look since their demands were not meet our youths now play in moonlight play games in the sand games out of fustration fustration due to lack of job our graduates now employed employed in barrow pushing company plc with first class honours obtained from war front our universities now battle fields our wards soliders only to come home with paper to prove it all their hopes in it in the designed paper paper that cannot feed even the fetus in the woman they made him believe them them that are beyond the sea that his wealths are safe though they beautify their land with it he knew not that the value of his wealth has been used used to tare their roads used to build schools used to build hospitals used to make things better used to empower their people used to make them what they claim those beyond the sea though his wealth are safe it have generated hundred times to say the least, its worth he claims to be rich, the cock that crew the dogs that bark the cricket that creaks the youths that riots the children that cries all are saying in Unison wake up and behave like a black though are for our blood flows in you let them know that we have an origin our origin so strong our strenght so wisely use our wisdom cannot be decieved wake up and take from them the wealth they took from us wake up and suprise them and make our homes the dream land the dream land of our fathers those that fought till sleep came and those that still wait for sleep to emerge wake up and let them know that our wealth we can manage to make our homes eden the eden our fathers lived in For our tribes are stong as strong as the lion the lion accros the equator our home the heart of Africa

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