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The Berlin Birthday

Promise Ita Okpohoudeme

Four to five hundred years ago
And the line drawn
On the dark earth
Immediately the Berlin birthday
And the black antennas was
Presented before the 'Ecelebrants' like birthday cakes,
And which black sheep knows
Where the rain began
How he's beaten
How to get dried?
Ageless decades ago
Black pot was broken
Forest's peace chased by steels
Flood of blood uprooted the forest
Legs and hands tied and fleeted away
Survivals of the middle passage
Wore the masks of slavery
But the pianos went on constant search
Inflicted more worry
Lies ruled out the form
Many bathed emancipation at graves
Dirge was the rhymes at home
Elegy was the verses out there
Lies dewed the forest at dawn
Elephants, Lions, Tigers, intoxicated and chained
Maybe the tortoise went astray!
Because the monkeys trampled upon
Escaped the forest to the banks
What wrong went later with them?
Now, the lies has dried our streams
Blocked our screams
Dusted our dreams.
Yes, the refined root is the lies
The stem is the root
The branches are the stem
Many leaves whither away.
The saw hews the tree
And an axe makes logs for free
Fire calls on the smoke
Likewise the charcoal makes the dust
And the wind blows the dust astray.
Hollow trousers walking astray!
Wanderers refuge hanging about
In His name they came,
In His name they game (d)
In His name they steal
In His name they kill
Isn't evil runs like erosion
Where's its foundation
Evils chased cloud in trousers away
Dawned wickedly this deadly day.
Oh Black woman arise
Take your bath
Paint your face
Fill your space.


Ecelebrants: European powers.

(C) Promise Ita Okpohoudeme
02/08/2024


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