My heart itches me
like burning fire of the sun
when I hear ‘em declare
that we knew nothing at all, at all.
Proudly, they beat their drummy chests
like a jubilating chimpanzee
to tell us with their filthy fingers at us
that we’re nothing before they came to us.
They boast’d that we had no scept’r;
we had no locomotive metallic monst’rs;
we had no designers to cov’r our raw flesh.
But they’ve fail’d to know
that our land gave ‘em their riches today;
that our ways were to us very much absorb’d;
that people’s rule was born first in our land;
that our locomotive metallic monst’rs were our animals
which needed ev’n no oil to move;
that our clothes were natural,
coming from our fig trees and our animals.
We must let them know
that we absorb now some of their ways
just not because our aged ways are bad,
but to show that the world is still one.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
You really are a good teacher Eche. All generations need to learn the truth about how nations have treated other nations and the false status that so many people wear and look down on others. It is so horrible the way that some countries have been ruined in many areas and they call it a good thing. Man has so many things to learn about how to treat eachother and love and help our brothers and sisters all over the world without taking away anything......Easy to say, but can only change the future.... Jim Troy