Only If I Knew I Wouldn't Have Read Poem by Okim Otu

Only if I knew, I wouldn't have read
I wouldn't have read those scary scriptures
That obsesses my heaven, with hell's dread
And thwart my ambition to get richer

I wouldn't have read those cruel history
Only if I knew, I wouldn't have read
Of my forefathers forceful slavery,
That brought between black and white loggerhead

Some jump into sea, flouting any thread
Fully arrange in ships like fish in pack
Only if I knew, I wouldn't have read
History that took humanity back

I wouldn't have read the exploitation
Of which great men died trying to defend,
Of our dear land, called colonization
Only if I knew, I wouldn't have read.