A WORD TO A SLEEPING GIANT Giant! Potential giant of my time The tropics is your home Yet you trouble your own Leaving them to smile through hopelessness While you abound in beauty and splendor O latent giant of the tropics Where do we go from here? Giant! Glorified giant of Africa You thrive like a midget Dancing a ballet You make your home unbearable for her own Chasing rat when your house is on fire Your wards scatter all over the world O! Latent giant of our time. Giant! Potential giant of my time You make us go haywire At your hostile nature we cringe At the ALUU four I frown That armless species are endangered Latent giant of the tropics Rise up from this oppression! Giant! Crawling giant of the tropics I cry, That the bodies of the innocent litter the streets Although not like in Sudan or Middle East But explosion rock in the crowd of many Now I hear that familiar sound in a Mall in Kenya Who shall save this latent giant of the tropics? Giant! Struggling giant of my time You strive every now and then But with muscle power is taken after a tussle Yet they bamboozle and embezzle When we have no morsel to swallow Latent giant of the tropics Arise and arrest imposters in power! Giant! As you celebrate at this time Your five decades and three In abundance you fare like sucking When shall you grow up? Shall you forever remain a baby? O! Latent giant of the tropics. Why mop when they mess up the labour of our past heroes? Giant! Potential giant of my time Why should BH insurgency counter your stride? Shall we continue to live in a country? Where ASUU is not a footballer yet she strikes more than Messi Where a political party is one but doubles in the face of crisis Where we have black gold yet poor and deprived Where our flag portrays fertility yet we know Mr. Hunger Potential giant of the tropics I shall continue to see hope in your hopelessness I see a future in your marginalized youths In your desolate streets, Shall we continue to hope and pray Even as I search like Diogenes the critic I have no doubt you will rise tomorrow from the dust of today! BY Ordinary JUSTICE aka O.J HAPPY INDEPENDENCE, NIGERIA! Like · Reply · 2
Posted on: Tue, 01 Oct 2013 06:51:25 +0000
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