Roaming Raven
OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 015
ROAMING RAVEN
TIME OF THOUGHT:10:15PM
DATE OF THOUGHT:2:12:2011
Where from here
Art thou heading to?
On errand?
I believe
Oh wait and hear
I have a message for them
Branch up there
Tell "them" for us
That "they" have done us evil
Tell "them" their conscience is failing
And we are fainting of waiting
Tell "them"
They vowed and swore
Vowed to wipe our tears
Swore to stand in for us through seasons
Not to make it flow the more
Ask "them" why they idle up there
While our land is wasting away
With our throat dried out of thirst
And our stomach twists daily of hunger
Tell "them"
They are the leaf hoppers
That eats up our green land
Let "them" know
We are angry because of hunger
And they are cursed by what they have caused us
Tell "them"
Their deeds makes our women a widow mother
And orphan of our innocent little children
Can peace and happiness ever be theirs?
For they can never tell
What hunger can do
Hunger is a thorn
That makes a clear eyes turn red-hot
For they can never tell
Hunger makes a feeble hands to shoot an arrow.
Tell "them" that the blanket that should give us warmth is an abode to bedbugs.
Copyright © Ogunlabi Olajide | Year Posted 2017
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