Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from 2004

Arise Africa

Like a teenager emerging from the shades of childhood Africa sprung like a paragon of beauty She grew as  a child towards sainthood Her every move chaste, summarized as purity Black gold cascades like well oiled hair Facial features sharply chiseled out through self development Her supple shoulders moulded into submission to constituted authority and heirs Her slender hands constantly improving all that is set before her Her Scholars, sprouting, as promising as young firm breasts Her waist as a swans neck, void of corruption and evil schemes Undulating hips, as big as her dreams and aspirations Her steady long legs, the rock upon which her education and knowledge is based Like a young maiden introduced at her first ball, she stands in amazement at the scenario before her All like minded young rakes flock around her while older men beat their chests in display of superiority, strength and ownership The older men grab at her and begin to lay claim to her sweetness, filling her mind w...

PRAISE

Day unto day Night unto night Humbly will i come to your throne For the new mercies and grace which you bestow upon me Your love for me is like a rose in the mornings It is as caressing as the Ocean's breeze in the heat of the day Like the sun after a storm in the chill of the night Like a young eagle spreading its wings, you teach me to soar in your ways Like the first rains on the dry earth, you send me forth like an ambassador Your beauty radiates in me and makes me glow like the sun Your joy envelopes me and bursts forth like a bubbling spring within me I stand in awe of your majesty. At night, your gentle whispers of comfort calms me to sleep.

Letting go

You'll always be my friend Although right now we seem more like fiends I agree things are not the same You are as a roan Set free, allowed to roam I'll wait till you return home Though it may take ages I promise there will be no cages A Chinese saying goes- set a bird free, if its yours it will surely return If you do, I'll know you belong If you don't, Adieu No hard feelings. I will never forget you.