Mandela Madiba Poem by Gideon Idudje

NELSON MADIBA MANDELA
A broken reed
Bleeding through the love pipes of social apartheid,
Got fixed
After waging twenty sevenlogs of wood in the iron woods of bars
On him

Through his mouth,
The dumb trumpeted
And echoed, beating gongs into the forested minds of men in the distant woods

His retina;
Sighted the blind from obscurity of racisms
For abullseye of the Morrow's pregnancies

So men sang a chorus
...Hail hail free Mandela

His skin wore shackles
His mind bore freedom
His speech spoke out chains
Unweaving the threads of apartheid

So men sang a chorus
...Hail hail free Mandela

As Nelson Madiba Mandela's
Caged bird flew men to freedom
Angela Maya's caged bird sang men
Melodies that tuned men to freedom

Ode to Nelson Madiba Mandela's voice
of freedom
Ode to Angelou Maya's singing Bird