Ekwueme Kelechi

My cry is no longer new
My fear is now just few
My thought, I will gladly hew
Dismayed, I lack hearts on the pew
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I want to write a poem
But my poem lacks the voice to speak
It lacks sponsors for its beauty
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Awake! Thou country
To the heart of thy bride
"An ocean of peace to the sons of thy womb"
Grant unto us
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I will be the invisible whisperer
To caress your soul
At its feast with sorrow
I will do it for love
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I'm tired of this tradition
Which keeps me in bondage of sweat
And ties my neck
Like a cow led to the slaughter
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When I marry
I will not make my wife
A woman of the other room
I will keep my children in dark
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No Presido be laik dat Blak Washington
Wey slim laik paw-paw tri
In giv us praid
Bet no mek us praud
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Na modara be in second nem
In don tu pipo
No de tok egen
Som don bikom sef-med dumbs
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There are two plots of land
In my grandfather's vineyard
The best of his assets
That made him shed the blood of his skin
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I no go kol nems
Bet de plenti
For di biges West Afrikan kontri
Di kontri dia Oga de kol country kwantri
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If laziness is the blood that runs in the veins of our youths
I will like to be lazy
If it's what gifts their tummies with an angry face called six packs
Let me ride on the chariot of laziness
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Na you go mek wimen mis heven
Hau you tink se you go mek am
Wia you cari fes
Wey no bi dia own giv dem?
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Ezam tu de bone bone fes
In no de alaw pesin enjoy
Na im kill everitin
Wey konsain buk
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Phone no strong at all
No mata di pipo wey du am
Wai in go wek pesin wey de slip
Bet no fit wek pesin wey don die?
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Tall pipo too mek peson fia
Dey go de waka
Asif se dey go fall
Di fia bi mek dey no brek
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Beyond the bars of the altar
Where two is made one
I'm Taata
The beacon that waists the song of joy
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If all promises made by man
Were to be wealth
I will not be as poor as Dangote
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Obim, the one who housed my feeble bones
After the day of cultivation
The woman who drank
From the cup of pain
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If drumming is the food of love
Beat on
Beat it tirelessly
And suffer not its cry to cease
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O buru na Nnamdi Azikiwe bu onye Igbo
Ma bie aha ya n'obodo
Si nna m kpobam Igbo
Maka ubara mu n'asu Igbo
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