USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Moans Atop A Whore

distasteful !

On Jan 19, 2:24 pm, ChidiAnthonyOparaPoetry/Quotes
<chidianthonyoparapoe...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> (Poem By: Chidi Anthony Opara)
>
> In this hour
> When the angel
> Filled
> The womb of the virgin
> With angelic fluid
> And the virgin,
> Still a virgin bore a child,
> Mandate
> Made mad by power
> Moans
> Atop a whore
> Spreadeagled.
>
> The state is stuffed
> Inside the bag of abandonment.
>
> We have stepped
> Into another beginning.
> The warnings
> Of wisdom are still unheeded,
> The madness of mandate
> We still ignore.
>
> Mandate
> Made mad by power
> Moans
> Atop a whore
> Spreadeagled.
>
> This beginning is set
> To step
> Into the portal of past
> And bid us bye forever.
> By then
> We will be beyond salvation.
> The umbilical cords
> Of our newborns
> Will be buried in foreign lands.
> To the gods of other lands
> We will offer sacrifices.
> We will pour libations
> To the ancestors
> Of those who own us,
> Our ancestors will agonize.
>
> Mandate
> Made mad by power
> Moans
> Atop a whore
> Spreadeagled.
>
>
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