Thank you, Baba.
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Ibukunolu A Babajide <ibk2005@gmail.com> wrote:
Very commendable poetry! Catches the mood of times gone by and tugs at times unfolding!Cheers.IBKOn 12 June 2015 at 15:02, 'Kennedy Emetulu' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:--…..June 12: I Will Still Call Your NameTwenty-two years, we stab, viciously, furiously, in the darkAnd stagger, blindly, breathlessly, to the footstool of ChangeThe hunter's dog missed the whistle, but we can still hear its barkNo, it's the giggles; airy, bloodless giggles from the shooting rangeOne nation, like a salmon, rose to head off khakied historyOne band, of thieves, murder sleep, eyes, wild, wide awakeNow their steaming heads rest on this stony side of stolen victoryOluronbi, your pleas before this tree, like your tears, are fakeI will still call your name again as they steal your warm corpse awayMoshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, your bush babies are still peeringOur night now longer than the knives they plunged into you on that dayYou, the spirit that rattled the still waters of a nation without a steeringOlawale, our wealth at the end of this tired ropeKashimawo, we look, we cry, we stare, we Hope…
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