if the black doesn’t forgive there would be war forever if we don’t forget blood would paste our road if the black don’t believe to build faith admits molestation if they don’t………….. no white would walk alive if the black don’t forget how they hang our fore fathers if we don’t forgive how they forcefully… Continue reading IF BLACK… by by Lebile Melt Tosin
Tag: Afrocentrism
IN THOSE DAYS by Micheal Jacob
In those days when our fathers carried woods on bicycles When under the mango tress serves as relaxation centres Palm wine as red wine, cola nuts serve as chocolates Cleaning our mouth with the back of our hands In those days when our mother carried clay pots on their heads When our white gods put… Continue reading IN THOSE DAYS by Micheal Jacob
DARK AND SHINES by Goodness Ayoola
Again I am lost in a fleet of fragments Floating beneath my throat, inflammable I lie barely at the mercy of the poetic ballpoint My convulsing fingers seek solace in silence My troubled thoughts buried into the penny fountain. I feel a flush of pure rage in my ligaments As I augustly pay the evening… Continue reading DARK AND SHINES by Goodness Ayoola
WE TOOK IN
In days gone, I was told None was black, none was white None was Franco, none was Anglo None chewed arrogance, none failed tolerance None brained nobility, none mocked religiosity…. We were all Sisters and brothers Young stuck to the old like bread to butter We took seats at full tables with smiles to down… Continue reading WE TOOK IN
BLACK CHILD
O child of endless potentials farther than the horizon Let the iron-cap covering you thoughts fly away like a hopeless hawk Into the lifeless desert … It shall hover, until the earth stands still For inevitable, is your arrival Hearing your cries the forests mourn Your humiliation causes the sun to shed tears Upon your… Continue reading BLACK CHILD
ROUGH DIAMOND
Charcoal! I hear them call me. But unlike the coal, I’ve got beauty within. Black, that’s just the color of my skin. Cut me first, to know the color I will bleed. I am black and am proud. I’d stand out in a crowd. Call me a walnut! Liken my skin to its cover. But… Continue reading ROUGH DIAMOND
MOTHER IN THE SUN
I am the back That received those stripes From the cage for freedom: To you, I come, Africa! To you, I come, Mother in the sun! With striated shadows of grief, Barefooted, Like ugoni village priest: I bare no teeth in laughter. I only bawl for my sorrowed life. But, when you welcome My sore… Continue reading MOTHER IN THE SUN
I FEEL NO SHAME
Why have you shut your eyes against your old culture? Does my iro and buba not do me well than your ‘mini-gown’? Why have you shut your mouth against our old food? Does my amala and ewedu not do me well than your half cooked rice? And does my pap not done me well than… Continue reading I FEEL NO SHAME
DARK GIRLS
Bureaucracy of greedy county men Slaves of power Freedom of pain Shameful dark girls Resent the power of their language Discriminate the choices of their leaders Mock the original truth of their existence Dark girls who paint their masks with light torching colors Approved by soldiers of perfection Dark girls who reject the rich plate… Continue reading DARK GIRLS
BUILDERS OF THE WORLD
For the world, unwillingly Africa toiled, not sparingly Like locusts in a leafy field Africans worked without sunshield The nations of progress Are the showcases of African process At heart is success Away from thought is ‘to mess’ Look at the Super Power They could have been lower Were it not for the African back… Continue reading BUILDERS OF THE WORLD