The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #109415   Message #2287242
Posted By: Georgiansilver
13-Mar-08 - 08:13 AM
Thread Name: BS: Poem request
Subject: RE: BS: Poem request
we are daughters of the soil.
look at us, feel our anger.

feel our pain
feel our sorrow,

eyes weeping blood, blood
flowing into rivers
staining the earth.
our nose breathes in the injustice
That hangs over the world
Like a cloud
Ears hearing abuse, so freely rendered.
Oh feel our anger

feel our pain
feel our sorrow.

YET!

What started as a whisper from our tongues
has become a shout
from every conscious mouth
still!
you rape us
still!
you abuse us
again again again ……..
shoot us! Shoot us! Death cannot kill the spirit,
our spirit, which will rise,
rise like a mist to smother the downpressor.
then fall like dew,
to nourish the land
that gave we birth.
we are daughters of the soil.
look at us.
see Africa.
feel our anger

pain
sorrow.