<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=549520" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dance of a god</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Life is beating the Ayara-Ekomo drum-<br>And I am dancing like the priestess of the river<br>possessed by the mermaid spirit of Anansa-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even the Sun rises to applaud my passion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Fate has cooked for me- the black soup-<br>I lick it with the zest of a starved child</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I run from the statues of my negriscent<br>that sing to me the songs of the spirits <br>and expect me to dance the dance of the dead</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I run as far as I can under those hunting eyes of the night<br>through the thicket of the gathering spirits of the forest.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I can fall to the ground like a Yoruba man<br>to salute the full moon that illuminates my escape path</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The daunting drum-beats of life blends with<br>the crying drums and wailing flutes of my native land<br>and the music of a sun-heated people fill my ears-</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And like a funeral-dance in a wake-keeping <br>I am demanded to tap to the depressing melody<br>.<br>But I dance the dance of a god.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Konye+Ori">Konye Ori</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=549520" data-title="Dance of a god de Konye Ori" data-description="Life is beating the Ayara-Ekomo drum- And I am dancing like the priestess of the river possessed by the mermaid spirit of Anansa- Even the Sun rises to applaud my passion Fate has cooked for me- the black soup- I lick it with the zest of a starv..."></div> </div> </div>

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