USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Poetic Thoughts

O Chidi !

We ask, how many more shuffling feet O Lord, from nowhere to nowhere? Shuffling, shuffering and shmiling...

I imagine you - like sardines in a bombay tata bus , you against your will all the way from Owerri to Lagos being squeezed in by two parrots. Male and female created He them.

I have suffered some of the same, poorly travelling by tro-tro and danfo, Accra - Kumasi, Buguma- Umuahia, especially when sometimes, the parrots are not female but male and of the Jehovah's witness tribe or some pentecostal evangelists whose main mission in life is to convert you to their own way of life, the truth, the bread, their first question: Have you been saved? Saved by whom? Buhari? Kanu?

But most of them won't have to wait too long :As Jesus preached to his people of Biafra : Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven !

That's the golden word, slum that which  the REv. Bob Marley used to refer to as the Ghetto  - and down there in the Ghetto - we suffer

In Africa, the only ghetto I know - knew and very well, was Nima in Accra where I had some Fra-Fra friends from Bolgatanga ( Dollar and Attah the caretakers in the South Legon Chalets) who had  a few friends and relatives in the Police force  - and at weddings, outdoorings, promotions, etc  a lot of peace and love , music and dancing and that  Fra fra violin the gongi  would play on, endlessly…

About real pet parrots who may be ownerless  before they too return to heaven : https://the-oasis.org/

On Monday, 23 October 2017 13:09:23 UTC+2, Chidi Anthony Opara wrote:

I am in Lagos,

I am in Eko again!

I am sandwiched between parrots,

The bus moves like snail.

This "go slow" !

I alight

And join shuffling feet.

Those feet shuffling

To and from no where.

Unlike the shuffling feet,

I walk to the slum

To commiserate

With slum dwellers.

(c)Chidi Anthony Opara

#2017Poeticthoughts

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