Tobi Adebowale Poems

In mid-air
It lies suspended
With potent power
Waiting to serve
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Recall that blazing afternoon
When you and the sun boiled with rage
And for reasons I did not envisage
Our bond was severed that noon
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You got my previous piece
And did not respond
Please respond to this
So my mind can taste peace
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In their veins
flowed the patriotic
blood of ancestral spirits
that laced their hearts
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Shocked
and teary
Swimming in pain
My bulging eyes
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On my exit today
Master
I recall with nostalgia
My first humble step
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Reminiscent of dark days
When ancestors were
Fettered and ferried
Across oceans
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When filled with bread
In their homestead
They send us mails
To invoke our wails
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Like a tongue
Deprived of the teeth’s company
It lay sprawled
Like it could do no wrong
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Concealing their sufferings
With superb acting
People in our bursting city
Go gently about their duties.
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