Contemporary Ode To a Mother Crying Out To Her Children

In the presence of all to see, her world turns and runs red with the blood of her children: Blood flowing like a wandering stream. The bloated bellies of surviving youth mock aborted pregnancies of liberty; and her once luscious breasts now sag in union with the sinking faces of lost hope. Lost hope---disappearing like solitary ghost smoke of abandoned fires; abandoned fires---dying in waning time. Hollowed red eyes of fleeing lovers look backward onto the wholeness of nothing---smiling death sitting and waiting on the coming feast. Though the heartbeat of hope struggles through the valleys of shadows of death, she must yet believed that God has not forgotten her; Indeed, it’s yet believed that in the midst of the ethnic genocide in her Dante-like hell, this wretched mother---clinging to time and its history---will once again experience the restoration of her Pan-African unity and great African glory. A great glory of continental liberation sown in the brave hearts and liberated minds of her children who---scattered throughout her lands as well as in Diaspora---will eventually bring to fruition. Remember, wherever you are, Mother Africa is; and you’re indeed, her liberating children--- Umbilical bound to restore her collective glory.