Tosin Abegunde Poems

Sorrows and Rejoicings

Here I come amidst tears and joy
From a journey so unpredictable
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Eaten up with this ancestral tales,
A stereotyped contemptous myth
Engrossed for xenophobic reasons:
The second phase of the apartheid
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Interface

In this mystical phase I roam
Like myth of building the Rome,
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I am the silent rhythm
Beating in the pulse of
S/he who can discern
The melody of reality.
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Like the thick shadow
Of a baoba tree in the
Bright mid-night sun,
They all form large part
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While in your compartmentalized womb
Struggling to get a form
Just as many a monumental foetus,
The diagnostic test on the foetal throb
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Like the first born among the dead,
You are the Chief of strength among the immortals,
Wisdom of the warrior spirits and protector of orphans
In whom the spirit of hunting, iron, and warfare dwells;
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They are mothering mothers
Who without conscience curse
The intriguing bloods that tend to
Flow into the wineskin of a foresight
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Many a time, I envisage the future
Filled with our pains and torture
And I faint for posterity in awe
Beholding the inherent torture.
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Wake of eternal reference
On the platform of Ake
Like the order of melchizedek
Established on timeline for ages.
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