Warrith Olawale Poems

After the darkness, a sobbing voice sings,
After the drought that grazed our fields,
After the scowls that tyrannized our faces.
It's now a decade after the darkness
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I look away, to a land far away,
Green with gardens, serene with seas.
I look beyond the fog of today
With a bleary sight, threatening to cease.
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Lagos, your sweat;
Lagos, your struggle
For the countless children
That in your arms, dangle.
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'I'm gonna make a change'-
That's the promise I always make.
Yet this man walks the streets
With heart full of joy and under his feet
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I know it rains here because I feel the drops
Because there's no sunshine to kiss the crops,
Because the thunder chases lightening
And I quake; it's so deafening.
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Come back to Mother Earth
Although she's been arrogant, unwilling to apologize
But see- there're tears in her eyes.
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Her fluorescent eyes, electric gaze
Dazzling beauty that awakens tears.
Aroused, we've followed her to this strange place
Of sunset, with glowing bulbs everywhere.
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Pity grips me now as those dire moments dreaded,
Come to life, him-dreading-self goes to death.
A question lingers as he lies on that bed,
‘How does it feel living, with each laboured breath
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What if we are wrong?
What if the defination of being dumb
Is speaking, shouting, singing a song?
What if silence is the only language the Earth understands
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If only time throbbed in the heart of that snail
As it starts climbing that hill beyond the vale,
I would wait on this shore without pain
For two hundred years to see you again.
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