Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - The Revolution Will Be Tomorrow (Poem)

Beautiful:

We are pretend revolutionaries

Cocooned in the comfort of cowardice,

We whisper to ourselves;

"The revolution may be tomorrow".

truly, cowardice can be seen as often comforting.

toyin

On 11 February 2012 09:28, Chidi Anthony Opara <chidi.opara@yahoo.com> wrote:

By Chidi Anthony Opara

 

We are pretend revolutionaries.

In silence

We watch our world whirl

In the swirl of sin.

 

Our minstrels

Stare at the audience,

Their instruments mute.

 

We are like woodpeckers

That stare in awe at tree trunks,

We are like lions

That mew like house cats.

 

We are saints

In consort with sinners.

 

We are pretend revolutionaries

Cocooned in the comfort of cowardice,

We whisper to ourselves;

"The revolution may be tomorrow".

 

Tomorrow,

The real revolutionaries will be born

And we,

The pretend revolutionaries

Will be buried

In the cemetery of cowards.

The revolution will be tomorrow.

 

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