I love to sing this song
Emanating from feelings
That run deep, as a fountain
Draining into an ocean
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Must I, a muse,
Drink from the cup of quietus
Like the Master Sculptor?
Or, die this lurid, subtle, heroic death
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Stimela was not their song
Nor were they spewing vernomous curses
At the chu chu train
As in the miners voyage,
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From the sweet, fresh aroma of sposh;
A pretentious, masquerading winter
In New York, New Jersey, the New-Hampshire white mountains,
To a simmering defiant sun in the coast of Florida and California,
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Hello Mama, can you hear me?
Mama it's your son Uwadiegwu calling
You mean I should have known what time it is before calling?
No Impertinence Nne, but our elders say that
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Africa my mother and father land,
You are the song on my lips
You are the rhythm in my dance
The land of the Serengeti
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Brother,
We have arrived at the end of the tunnel,
Still we see no light...
On the turbulent road,
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Amidst clear blue sky
Under swaying rafia palm,
The wise, bald, grey old man
Picked up his antiquated guitar,
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The bespectacled, bald, old man,
The custodian of the Oracle's
Of the hills and caves,
Gnashed his tobacco tainted teeth,
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Of shadows, satin and sapphire
Triple semblance of a kind
The lucid, refulgent rhythm of mankind
From metamorphosis to the hoof of twilight
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