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Give Me Freedom Beyond This Land

Hold your tears!
I do not want it,
my mind is made up.

Those crocodile tears
Can't cure this madness now!
What I want is looking at me.

Hold your fears woman!
Your song is a reproach to my dreams
War is a enough music to my marrow.

Give me freedom 
beyond this very lost land
then my heart shall dance.
I will rise against all odds
even when no cocoyam
and yam are seen in my barn.


©John Chizoba Vincent
From_A_Pen_Refusing_Frustration

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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