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African Love

African Love ******************************** Amongst flowers There are roses Et white ixoras Amidst stars There is the sun Of waters, There is the ocean To rivers, There is the Nile To Africa is mad dictators And constitutionally imposed hypocrites For all African laws There are exemptions Amid stones, There are diamonds; Blood diamonds To fighting wars There are insidious conspiracies Of getting old Is growing cold And letting go For African oxymorons Is both paradoxes and confused morons Of true love is friendship set to music, Bathing blindfolded in the dark seas But of my African love is sets of musing ... Ghops

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