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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_7637" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7637" style="width: 385px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/wells-of-our-fathers.png"><img class=" wp-image-7637 " title="Wells Of Our Fathers" alt="Wells Of Our Fathers" src="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/wells-of-our-fathers.png" width="385" height="303" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7637" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[Wells Of Our Fathers]</strong></figcaption></figure><a class="zem_slink" title="Holes (Full Screen Edition)" href="http://www.amazon.com/Holes-Full-Screen-Shia-LaBeouf/dp/B00009XUM5%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dzemanta-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3DB00009XUM5" target="_blank" rel="amazon">Holes</a> dug with beak of loves<br>
Papa worked hands of no gloves<br>
Rain and sun were no weather<br>
Days and nights were all days<br>
Papa worked with his self<br>
Digging this well of his <a class="zem_slink" title="Blood" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">blood</a><br>
A water of blood to quench our future
<p><a class="zem_slink" title="Earth" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Earth</a> to <a class="zem_slink" title="Sky" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Sky</a>, was no tall a tree<br>
Papa climbed and stole the sun<br>
Erased the rainbow<br>
Collected the stars from the skies<br>
And slapped the clouds<br>
All to force down rains<br>
To satisfy these wells<!--more--></p>
<p>Papa was brutalized<br>
He was whipped by rods of tomorrow<br>
He could cry out his sorrow<br>
But he smiled for more lashes<br>
All to make this future bright and flashy</p>
<p>To the depth of this well<br>
He measured not<br>
All he wanted was a well<br>
Dug, dug and dug<br>
Till he got lost in earth</p>
<p>Where would we have been<br>
If Papa was you or me?<br>
What would we have eaten<br>
If Papa had education and also wore suits?<br>
What would have been our names<br>
If Papa had swallowed western norms?</p>
<p>Today we carry on our lazy heads<br>
Buckets and pans of empty stomachs<br>
Fetching and drinking<br>
Red wines from the wells of our fathers<br>
Ignorant we are<br>
That we drinking the blood of our fathers<br>
From their own wells!</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Written by:Oppong Clifford Benjamin</em><br>
<em>Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</em></p>
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