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Booksprings ( II )
Ifedayo Oshin |
I arrived earlier in time
To witness the great work of creation
When from dust emerged the first human
I saw the destruction of Noah's world
And the reconstruction thereafter
The earliest civilization on the soil of Egypt
The reign of the Greek gods
The might of Roman, before my eyes unfolded
I walked the plains of Paris
On the eve of Robespierre's revolution
Trudged behind Lenin and Trotsky
Bringing in the new mother Russia
In England I drank of victory cistern
In Cromwell's battle against the crown
Together in a boat we discovered Columbus' new world
For Africa we scrambled in Berlin
From the rock ravines of Kenya I ranked in Maul Maul's file
With Gandhi and Mandela we trekked
To freedom for South Africa and India
I saw Patrice Lumumba murdered in the Congo
At Accra and Lagos, I saw the sway
Of Nkrumah and Zik's rhetoric's and polemics
On stage with Bob Marley in old Rhodesia
I danced song of liberation in new Zimbabwe
Last centuries, yesteryears, and yesterdays
Today, tomorrow on pages and lines of books
Open before my eye mind.
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