<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=544333" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Africa, I were the one you killed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In those misery-days; <br>Those days when happiness of birth cried; <br>-with an oversized echo; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Africa, when your gods roared in their wooden-cages<br>I were the twins you unjustly killed; <br>-Just to appease your gods</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Again when darkness fell on the skin of your sky<br>-and gave it ugly spot; <br>I were the lamp-lights you held; <br>to walk on the blood-shed roads, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when your furious deities are thirsty and in full rage, <br>-in their desert homes.<br>My bloods you gave, to turn away their anger.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Africa, when you killed your'today'<br>Tell me what would your tomorrow be? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thanks be to angel Mary Slessor, <br>who came to dry-clean the tears of Mama-Africa, <br>-with her most decent affection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Truely the years've gone in a quick motion of time; <br>but its scar remains a badge on my heart</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Africa, my Africa, <br>I were the twins you unjustly killed yesterday; <br>O the living history of misery; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Africa, I'm back-again today not to avenge, <br>but tell you how much I love you.<br>Adesitimi.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Adesitimi+Taiwo">Adesitimi Taiwo</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=544333" data-title="Africa, I were the one you killed de Adesitimi Taiwo" data-description="In those misery-days; Those days when happiness of birth cried; -with an oversized echo; Africa, when your gods roared in their wooden-cages I were the twins you unjustly killed; -Just to appease your gods Again when darkness fell on the ski..."></div> </div> </div>

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