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Black Freedom

This land of ours was given away for coins
Every man was sold,hair to toe and groin
This land of ours for folly was lost
Our land our land,taken by force.
The big fish that floats threw men up on 
our land
Red hairy men with knife and gun in hand
They faught us bit by bit and won us one 
by one
Some came with crosses,believe in their 
God or
fight againt their gun
Their God was stronger and their guns 
brought
more death
With their God they bought our culture and 
their
guns killed our tradition
They claimed the God they know owns the 
earth
And for Him they have come to take our 
homes
our land our nation
They were gods cos their skin was white
They made us slaves and took our all and 
our light
We were deprived of the better life,to white 
we
were stain
They brought laws and rules,their god said 
the
blacks were created to be slaves
They weakened our faith and pounded our 
soul
They destroyed our beliefs and broke our 
pillars
and our bones
They took our everything and and bounded 
us
with chains
They took our freedom and told us we were 
vain
Blessed are the men who had fought till 
now
Blessed are the heroes who had bought our
freedom with their lives
Great men who travelled on thorns and 
broken
bottles to bring back our crown
They gave their all and blood as bribe
How sweeter can our redemption song be?
True freedom is when a black man is king
Things fell apart
(Sighs in releif) ''at last''

Copyright © Kayode Benjamin | Year Posted 2014



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Love

Many times I get to wonder if love is a 
waste of
time
Cos it hard to find someone who's heart 
and yours
rhyme
Many times we choose to stay trying to 
tailor on
time
Saving nine sweet songs of heartbreak with 
its
melodies,rhythms and rhyme
Some times I get to wonder why love in the 
first
place
Why not save dis plenty strength when it 
only
takes little to hate
Some times we choose to stay feeling we 
are in
the right place
It only take a night to realize that you have
crossed the thin line between love and hate
Most times i get to ponder on the right 
words to
say
And to get true love, all of me is never 
enough to
serve as pay
Most times we are made fools doing both 
the right
and wrong in the others say
Love has a language we must speak and 
dues we
must pay
Many times I get to wonder if love is a 
waste of
time
Cos we have stitched everyday but never 
did we
save nine.

Copyright © Kayode Benjamin | Year Posted 2014


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