The Gate Of Paradise Poem by Dr Igbinedion Obaretin

That frown horrifies your face, adding
Years of weathering to your age, cracking
The concrete walls of your medieval make-up face.
Your repulsive lips bent, twisted in ugly pace
Each time Negroes come on board, sitting
Even far from your arrogant white skin, coarsening
Daily by your self-imposed racial stress.
Who pays for your reckless restlessness?

A smile is easier than a frown, bringing
Its brightness to the face, sending
Radiant rays of hope to the hopeless,
A debt we own humanity in a world of restlessness.
Take it or not my sister white skin
The truth from your black brother skin:
We are same in the inside of our beings
Will you refuse a heart transplant from black beings?

The gate of paradise is here
For all those who can hear:
As God surely is one
So the human family is one.