Waste land
Akinwusi Hosea. Pen name; Àgídìgbó 1999 (Modakeke, Osun State)
Song of Wasteland
It's become a fairytale
How beautiful and productive it is
With West flag in our heart.
What is it to you
The reddened earth
The wonderful stones
All deposited by our ancestors
For our livelihood
Wasted!
Imperialistic tradition
Our names has no value
Our rainforest, savannah, dessert
Ocean,river are desecrated for to
build the world we will latter worship
Wasteland, your father's blood,mother's tears.
Thinking and saying, they are helping our land
Hope to change world
With ballistic and dreadful ammunitions
Saving World or destroying her ?
But when shall we see ourselves not as waste?
But the Glory of the world, when shall we stop worship those who are supposed worshipping us instead
About this poem
The poem is about the lost of AFRICA's Glory. All gift given to has been rapped off by western world with promise of saving Africa
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Submitted by epitomeofshalom38 on April 10, 2023
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| Scheme | A XXX BXXXXX XBXBXX AXXXXX |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 721 |
| Words | 128 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 1, 3, 6, 6, 6 |
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