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Dance of Infertility

STANDING ALL ALONE
THINKING NON BUT ALL
NATURE AND DESTINY AT
ITS BEST
AT WAR BUT WHO WINS
GRIEVE NOT WOMAN
GRIEVE NOT
FOR IS THERE A REASON TO
NO SEED CAN EVER SURVIVE
IN THIS LAND
WHICH YOU’VE NURTURED
PLOUGHED AND TILTED FOR
MANY YEARS
YET NO FRUIT HAS IT EVER 
BORE
STOP DREAMING THEN
STOP DREAMING
LOOK HOW YOU LIE SOUR
WITH MILK
YOUR PRIDE OF WOMANHOOD
HAS GIVEN YOU NO PRIZE
SEEDLINGS WOULD YOU
NEVER TRIM NOR PRUN
FOR MOTHER YOU WOULD
NEVER BE CALLED

WHY LET THIS EMPTINESS
RUIN YOU
AND INFERTILITY HOOT YOU
WHILE YOU SIT AND SING
THIS SONG OF MYSTERY AND
MISERY
THOUGH YOUR CALABASH IS
BROKEN
AND YOUR BAMBOO FALLEN
STAND UP AND DANCE IN
AGONY HAPPILY
FOR LIFE ITSELF IS A MIRAGE
THE MORE YOU LOOK THE LESS
YOU SEE
THEN TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTH
OF SACK
AND WEAR YOUR GOWN OF 
RAFFIA AND COWRIES MADE
SHAKE TO THE TUNE
THAT LIFE PLAYS FOR YOU
COS’ ONE DAY IT WOULD ALL
END
WHEN ALL THE DRUMS WEARS 
AND TEARS
AND NATURE WITH DESTINY
ALL LOSE THE GAME

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Come Back, Come Back Home

A DISTANT LAND YOU SEEK
AWAY FROM YOUR MOTHERS ARMS
NOW SEE WHAT PRIZE YOUR PRIDE 
HAS GIVEN YOU
A BITTER PAIN OF WORTHLESS GAIN

NOW YOU STAND AWRY WITH SHAME 
AND MAIMED
LOST IN AN ISLAND OF AN ANCIENT TALE
YOUR FRIGHT SEEMS LIKE AFLIGHT OF 
ENDLESS WOES
BOUND TO DIE A DAY BEFORE

BLOOD OF AGES STAY ALIVE
YOUR LAND AWAITS YOUR HUMBLE STEPS
THE ROOTS OF YOUR JOURNEY STILL LIES 
AWAKE
A MAMA’S ARMS FAR OUTSTRETCHED
TO RECEIVE YOU BACK HOME ONCE AGAIN

SEE THE FACES AWAITING YOUR COME
NOT TO SHARE YOUR WEALTH BUT THE 
WORSE
OF YOUR ERRAND OF A THOUSAND MILES