Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - June 12: I Will Still Call Your Name ( A Sonnet )

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.

 

IBK

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On 12 June 2015 at 15:02, 'Kennedy Emetulu' via USA Africa Dialogue Series <usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com> wrote:

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June 12: I Will Still Call Your Name

Twenty-two years, we stab, viciously, furiously, in the dark

And stagger, blindly, breathlessly, to the footstool of Change

The hunter's dog missed the whistle, but we can still hear its bark

No, it's the giggles; airy, bloodless giggles from the shooting range

One nation, like a salmon, rose to head off khakied history

One band, of thieves, murder sleep, eyes, wild, wide awake

Now their steaming heads rest on this stony side of stolen victory

Oluronbi, your pleas before this tree, like your tears, are fake

I will still call your name again as they steal your warm corpse away

Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, your bush babies are still peering

Our night now longer than the knives they plunged into you on that day

You, the spirit that rattled the still waters of a nation without a steering 

Olawale, our wealth at the end of this tired rope

Kashimawo, we look, we cry, we stare, we Hope

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