Conscious Peal Poem by Adeosun Olamide

Leaves conjure, sick to cure
When to him' eyes allure
Who in pain' legs held aid
Bit by snake, pulse run fade

Put on back, home the bashed
Who to floor laid and washed
All our care' him befall
He to come slave us all

Soon he woke, recovery came
Language his' strange became
Sent by gods' thought to touch
Revered him, treated such

Soon festive' village ‘voke
All thought gods' language spoke
In his smile' thought ours won
Then to leave, he set on

Many gift, off forthwith
Gold and fruits bag him with
As he goes, tears cheeks fall
Him that come slave us all

A moon gone' when return
Now others with' him adjourn
Palace honor' all bestow
When wonders unseen to us show

One' mirror named of great glee
Which gold oblige, if glimpse to see
And other, a shield sort of ply
This from skies spit keeps one dry

Now king, chiefs impress had
Called priest native' jealous mad
We to warn' daily plods
Of them whites we called gods

To be schooled of route gem
Gave my king, his prince them
He may learn ways theirs groom
And home return to ripen soon

In their nods, consent we
Now say School' beyond be
Large boat build if must attain
For they say' all can train

Now gather youths like grains
Each parent pray with fain
All in name road to pave
As day forth when selects gave

There in group all us grown
Knowledge grasp' me for known
Yet they looked, ignoring bright
Picking those only ‘with might

So to others few words say
That for journey gold must lay
When father heard' of fee
Barn he sold, to give them ‘me

All to pride mother danced
When knew ways her son soon glance
For she thought, heaven beyond seas
This for mirror and others agrees

In sacks, robes, sweets be
Come my son' calls to me
May the gods' light to bear
While her eyes soon to tears

As we sail, bye we give
In laughter some we live
We of might, affluence be
As world theirs on through sea

Then a stop we came by
Saw a ship bigger and high
There they said' we should on
And joy we be as came ‘pon

In this ship others see
Bound in chains, sad they be
Surprised we as run had
But caught and thrown' them they we add

In the sea, life to dwell
When in voyage' chains unwell
Starved of air' death slips in
Them that grasp, made sea inn

When to reach, line us all
Now to bare' pride striped fall
Then again batter coin
Tied and pulled all adjoin

In plantation' got my fight
This because little in might
Here too' princess mine is spurn
Who a maid, sex slave turn

Those to words lips by find
Them that hung lynch and bind
Now to run made agape
If were caught' hell escape

So taught of' Jesus peace lot
Who to kill let us not
We to love enemies must
And so did with' whips back crust

Now hair grey forth head mine
Lot my eye seen in time
Built their road, black we all
And many also our inventions haul

Skies sat' staring life murk
With one eye' still at work
And fingers' short of two
Still mum, thought of too

Now the war is come and gone
Soon free after misdeeds theirs atone
They we seen die in fields
Mortal being all revealed

Freedom bought cost of lot
Many lives death is got
And yet to agree many brawl
Those we helped when death crawl

Reach hand mine in tomorrow's sum
For my kids know not from
Nor language where' can they speak
While carry identity' gave along wreak

This to mold your thought be
Who to record put history?
White like them did it all
And deceit' has them still
When they say, rulers ours us sold
Know they lie and none is true
Done we built their lands for them
Home is call, home shall go
In despair' home remains
This because they took us best