The Promised Land Poem by Ama Alma Okigbo
The Promised Land
Being treated like animals, like nothing
Wearing rags and flogged under the hot African sun
Locked in cages and treated brutally
When would all this be over?
Walking home was yet another problem
For miles with sore feet and hunched backs
Where is home if we are shelterless
When our houses are taken by the heartless
When would all this be over?
Planning a meeting to flee the country
To a place better than this
To a place almost like heaven
With green pastures
They find a place to enjoy and forget their painful past
Finding a place where honey and milk flow
Like water in a river
Jubilating and celebrating for they have found a home
Children running around in the open meadows
Happy to be free
Their rightful home
Farming started the next day
Working as hard as ever to plant food
Soon plants are growing
Flowers are blooming
For once, they eat and are happy
They are free in this Promised Land
Being treated like animals... under the hot African sun Locked in cages and treated brutally When would all this be over? / a place almost like heaven With green pastures / Finding a place where honey and milk flow.... //.... This is indeed a very powerful poem which presents the dystopian and the utopian sides of a man's life. This shows how life sucks. Thanks.
Ama, I truly enjoyed this poem. This poem should be used in fighting for rights of the immigrants in their found promised land.
Nice one Ama dear, I see you improving everyday. I'm proud of you. Well done.
I think this is AmaZing! ! ! Wow, I still can’t believe how well you conjure images and emotions with your words. Please continue to share your gift with us. Use your incredible talent to educate, comfort and inspire the world.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Olisa Okigbo It is so nice and smart.