Unlearn What We Learned
Poem title: " Unlearn what we learned"
By: Sankara/African Pen
our country was noisy with onslaught sounds/
deefening with gun astounds/
the smoke took over our nose/
and mouth like cigarette smoker
overexpose/
Every phenomena move in opposite/
we later borrowed chicken's brain/
we were obsessed by grain of rice/
we took cigarette and smoked/
our sisters and brothers folk/
The minds were carried away/
by our sisters' beauty/
Our emotions dominance them/
day couldn't wait for night time/
we forcibly ejaculate day and night/
our own eggs were damaged by us/
Respect melted into ice/
ant, insect were tossed off/
the country was flooded/
with tears and unhappiness/
the country's flag colors changed/
white to red/
red changed into breathless animals/
Blue varied to fly /
sitting on lifeless bodies/
streets and brushes kept/
our luggages /
rain welcomed us with wet clothes/
mosquitos and roaches were our neighbors/
Malaria and triggerman kept us/
in perpetual silence/
food cut off speech with stomach/
mom and dad laid down their heads/
in the pool of blood/
rain pulled down from my eyes/
I left alone! I left alone!/
we learned to rudely approach/
forcibly make our little sisters/
wife materials before time/
we careless when the worst/
things are been done/
no respect for each other/
a lot we picked up/
fire ?? was ceased but we still/
live with our lessons/
the society is of no savvy/
statecraft thieving/
poverty embrace our people/
young people dreams to ministers/
directors, doctors, altered into/
zogos, riders and wrongdoers/
they hold their dreams with tears/
the country speedily took reverse gear /
the state is weeping/
State needs transformation/
Unlearn what we learned/
Copyright © Emmanual Samuels Kpan | Year Posted 2020
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