USA Africa Dialogue Series - Another Passover (Poem)

By Chidi Anthony Opara

Malevolent merchants.

Malevolence

Of minions of malevolent merchants.

Their whips whistled

On our bare backs.

On their lands

We laboured daily

Unpaid.

Our sweat

Watered their infertile lands,

Wastelands.

Wealthlands,

Their wastelands became.

We worked,

We sang songs

With lyrics of hope.

We waited

For the coming of the saviour.

The saviour surfaced

And passed over us.

We laboured more,

More unpaid labour.

We sang more songs

With more lyrics of hope.

We waited

For another coming of the saviour.

We prayed

Against another passover.

(Poem presented as social service, all right reserved)

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a "Life Time Achievement" Awardee, Registered Freight Forwarder, Professional Fellow Of Institute Of Information Managerment, Africa, Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

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