<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=546605" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Before independence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">BEFORE INDEPENDENCE<br>Centuries of suffering<br>Decades of slavery<br>In the hands of the nasara<br>We are abundant waste<br>So abandon our skin was</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But yet that freedom and country<br>Was still our legal right<br>Our love, happiness and freedom<br>Was locked and sealed<br>And thrown away into a deep dark sea</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That pride and power was owned by them<br>Our great parent were all eyes<br>Traded and beating like goods and slave<br>Treated like unwanted parts<br>But yet time was their patient</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our precious charcoal skin<br>Who can bear more than that? <br>And live stronger than them<br>Our homes have become into grave yards<br>For such that the sun hasn’t risen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But one gracious and remarkable day<br>Our dearest patient of independent<br>Our dripping tears was to be upheld<br>Our new dawn has unfolded<br>A new sunrise has risen</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A new life and beginning<br>Has just begun<br>My freedom<br> Your freedom<br>Our freedom</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Jamila.i.+Bello+girei">Jamila.i. Bello girei</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=546605" data-title="Before independence de Jamila.i. Bello girei" data-description="BEFORE INDEPENDENCE Centuries of suffering Decades of slavery In the hands of the nasara We are abundant waste So abandon our skin was But yet that freedom and country Was still our legal right Our love, happiness and freedom Was locked and seale..."></div> </div> </div>

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