By Samuel Isogun
The impediment of Black Man
Oh, Africa!
Where is your dream of yesterday?
When will you reach your full potential
and return to your glorious days?
The mighty Boabab tree
has unwittingly stopped growing since…
The fertile vast farm plantation
has self-neutered from bearing fruits.
Oh, Africa!!
Your seeds are wearing off,
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your leaves are falling off.
Your Branches
are breaking away to foreign lands, to be replanted and replenished on a prosperous grounds.
To a new beginning
and unique dispensation,
Where there’s enough water
for transpiration.
Where the Sun shines accordingly,
and the rain falls unceasingly.
Oh, Africa!!!
When will you stop sleeping?
Your Àtòúnrìnwá neighbours
have since gone farming.
But you would rather slumber
until their produce is cared for by others.
So you can beg and borrow to feed, and hoard enough to your grave,lasting until the defeat of your greed.
Burial ceremony and memorial,
even your posthumous occasions in arrears.