Forbidden Diamonds Poem by Ndina Kamaro Muofhe

Benighted identity of belittled race
Placed under the curses of demoralizing civilizations
Beneath the radars of sorrows and pains, they crawl to survive a brutal day
Moved from plantations where they picked cotton with their hands
To a jungle built of rough concrete where they continue to tread barefooted
On cold floors,
Their offsprings are born within bondages their fathers are held in
With faces of televisions telling stories meant to disregard their existence
Tales of their past end in chapters where their souls and flesh get lynched
But beyond that, lies a past buried like an Atlantis beneath the sea
A past defining the cause of the pain they sidled along
Where they formed part of wonderful galaxies
Before aliens pump artificial civilizations down their throats
Stuffing in them rotten teachings to keep them as eternity builders
Today they wrestle for piece of crumbs
Casualties buried within steel bars and descending caskets

Children of the sun, desert survivors
Their immortal existence survived a drought designed by a species that was born angry
On palms of these gutterlines, they are shining diamonds
It's a cage where these fallen cosmos are kept to never display their wonders

Stories of black diamonds, we hear
Manipulators of reality deny their existence
When excavated from wombs where they are incarcerated,
They are crushed by beaks of gluttonous desert eagles and Makarovs
To disexist them from might pages of yesterday
Guiding them to bleak futures through dark religions
Like cornerstones rejected
Pillars and defenders of mother nature
As they stumble to fall,
Mother nature withers within the wrath of a broken ozone
Lotions of destruction to their covers are smeared
To damaged their appeal in the eyes of the sun
Forbidden diamonds with hated covers
Victims of ubuntu spirit
Outcasted to the desert
Thriving like desert plants