All Need From You Poem by ASIIMWE SIMON ROLANDS

I have no penny in my hand
And I don't need any from you
Not even a shoe to my name
But that's not I ask from you
I ask for freedom or death
Those two I need one from you.

Now give me one of the two
And I will leave you to chew
I ask for what belongs to me
Not the one I want you to lend me
I mean the one made for me
The one you have robbed me.

I can sleep on the bare floor
I can feed on that they throw
I can dress in rags and grow
And be someone tomorrow
Someone happy in his sorrow
I am not a carpet on your floor
I am not a baby that craw
I am not an animal that follow
The hunters that carry arrows and bows
I am a wind that blows.

Now I want to be like a river that flow
Day and night I go
Dancing and singing my heart
Swinging all my parts
Shaking the floor with my feet
Catching all their eyes.

Or I want to be like a kite that flies
To the far miles in the sky
And catch the worldly beauty with its eyes
Beating the air with its wings
I wish I was any going all my ways
I wish I can be any singing all my songs.
I want to be that that feels the beauty of my land
Because this is my land
And it's your land
And our land.