WE WANT A NEW SONG
We want a new song
Not another dirge
That mocks our frenzy hope
Dreamt in the wilderness of faith
Sing with us a new song
Song of our prophetic resurrection
From our cemetery of decaying bones
Sing a new song
That would our sour truth
Of tribal hatred,
Dissolve with the soothing
Melody of Arise O’ Compatriots.
LEARNING
Learning is a continuum
Does not end up
After school
But stops
At the inevitable junction
Of rest in peace
Learning is the bridge
The unseen bridge
Across two ends
Of success and failure
Learning is a sojourn
In the wilderness of time
Time that merely
Resurrects the truth
Of a world
That knows its nothingness
Learning breeds knowledge
Knowledge breeds intelligence
Intelligence breeds wisdom
Wisdom breeds humility.
HOLY
DECEIT
They played and prayed God
But with evil ships
Chained and conveyed us slavish slaves
With ungodly hatred, milked
The juicy temples and treasures
Of our innocent mothers
And forced Negroes from them
Hymns that scrambled
And divided us without us
Crucified us on poverty’s cross
That burden us to penury.
