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 </div><p></p>Let me tell you something:<br>
a few years from now,<br>
you will wake up to find<br>
the sun’s claws digging deep<br>
beneath the volatile beauty of your skin,<br>
water will flood your room<br>
and fill it up so only your eyes could breathe.
<p>The rain will sing dirges<br>
with sorrowful muffled tones<br>
and your ears will bleed<br>
till an ocean of blood paints your home<br>
the red palace of doom.</p>
<p>Grains of food will learn to walk<br>
out of your house and surely,<br>
today’s fat rats will become ancestors<br>
to starved crawling skeletons.</p>
<p>Your step-mother’s fingers will be worn<br>
from washing your dirty clothes<br>
and she will say,<br>
“it is time to learn to do things yourself.”</p>
<p>Your father’s farm will become<br>
a murderer – death to all the crops!<br>
Death to everything that dares spring up!<br>
Death to them!</p>
<p>You will carry your kwashiokor belly<br>
around the city begging for alms<br>
while wearing your grandfather’s finest regalia.</p>
<p>Why?<br>
Because you did not listen<br>
when the black bird warned you,<br>
“Choose the light, choose life,” it sang<br>
Because you hissed when the media analyst warned you,<br>
“Choose the light, choose life,” he preached,<br>
Because you scoffed and spat when I warned you,<br>
“Choose the light, choose life,” I begged.</p>
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