I pledge to Africa my continent
A land flowing with milk and honey
A breast still firm
Filled with nourishing milk
Who has milked you dry.

So young and beautiful
The envy of the world
A beauty everyone craves
A heart everyone desires
A fragrance so alluring

Who has milked you dry?
Who has flattened thy breast?
A virgin of beauty once you were.
Now a public slut for everyone.

Who raped your beauty away?
Who defile your freshness?
Who took your virginity?
Who has made you so old?

A beautiful teen you were
Now an old pale woman
A Beauty all desire,
Now a dreaded ugly face.
A girl of glory once you were
Now an object of scorn
Once a girl of grace
Now full of disgrace.

Oh girl African,
Who did this to you?
You ripped thee off your glory?
Who took away your charm of beauty?
You once led the world.
Now thou is at its mercy.
You once wiped its tears.
Now it wipes yours.
You once fed the world.
Now it feeds you.
You once taught the world
Now it's teaching you.

A girl of virtue you were
Now vile and promiscuous
You once were gentle and kind
Now a gaboon viper
You once respected life
Now a dreaded killer

What's happening to you?
You are starving and dying
You are looking pale and lifeless
Slowly thou is fading away
Soon nothing will be left of thee

I can see your rapist
They are all around you
They have fastened you to their bed
They take turns raping you
They take you off your glory
They rape you off your beauty
They mock and abuse you
They have no regard for you
They see not your tears
They care not if you die

They have infected you
Thou is dying of virus
The doctors of heaven have ran a test
Thou have contracted poverty and hunger
Thou have contracted civil war
Thou have contracted hopelessness
Corruption the greatest of all.

Your kids' future they crush
But God will bring to life
Your children's mind they mess up
But God will give them wisdom
Your children they handicap
But God will make them whole
Your children they seek to destroy
But God will save them

Joblessness they fastened around them
But God will break them free
Hunger a remote to control them
But God will fine tune them.
Poverty they make their destiny
But plenty God will provide
Glory awaits them

Fight the rapist off Girl Africa
Stand up against them
Go for treatment and get healed
Cure yourself of their infections
Live again in beauty and glory

Be a virgin beauty again
Fill your breast with milk
Fill your mind with decency and virtues
Your heart with joy and happiness
Your body so endowed again
Once again become the envy of all

To you Girl Africa, I say,
"Fight! Fight!! Fight!!!
With prayer and actions
Against your rapist and virus
The greatest of them all
Your politicians and corruption."



By Okon Ukeme Cornelius
Okon PoeticSoul SingingSoul