PHILIP MOORE
[Tribute]
By Leonard Dabydeen
Close your eyes
go to sleep;
we shall not weep
but lift our heads
up high
to watch this monument
that you built upon
rocks of African slaves;
embellishment -
rising to emancipation glory,
plantation Lilienburg rustling
with breezes across
the Canje river.
And callous hands
stained in brown sugar
Cuffy and Akara
stirring a rebellion
watching
Governor Van Hoogenheim
move house
in the heart of Magdalenenburg,
with a new dawn
for independent Guyana
with Cuffy
towering in the nation's capital:
a monument
at the Square of the Revolution!
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