<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=564664" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>My Africa</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come to my land to feel her warmth.<br>Come to my land to hear her myriad voices.<br>Come to my land to see her many magical colours.<br>Africa the shape changer, the chameleon, <br>Africa, different things to different people<br>Never ever dull or commonplace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Merge with her, become one with her<br>Feel her joys and her sorrows<br>Feed on her abundances and <br>Weep at her devastation and famine.<br>She is the mother of mankind<br>The cradle of civilisation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A multi-layered lady, feel her deep rhythms<br>Her primordial throb as vital as a heart beat.<br>Hear her sound images vibrating.<br>Smell her odours, from the seashore<br>To the deserts, to the lush green rain forests, <br>To the high snow capped mountain ranges.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She is a wanton, fickle, ever changing mistress.<br>She will seduce you, draw you in and <br>Enslave you forever. The call of Africa is <br>A siren’s call, savannah lore lei. <br>She has bartered for the souls of mankind <br>Since the world evolved and time began. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The promise of land, the lure of precious <br>Metals and gems, the domination of the beasts, <br>The beckoning of vast uninhabited spaces.<br>Man has come to conquer her, make her his.<br>Instead she enters your blood like a fever, <br>A sickness that will never leave, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No matter how far you travel from her, <br>And no matter how you try to leave her behind, <br>Wherever you roam, she will forever more<br>Call to you to return to her embrace.<br>This Africa is life; she is the alpha and omega, <br>This is my Africa</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gillian+P+Stokes">Gillian P Stokes</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=564664" data-title="My Africa de Gillian P Stokes" data-description="Come to my land to feel her warmth. Come to my land to hear her myriad voices. Come to my land to see her many magical colours. Africa the shape changer, the chameleon, Africa, different things to different people Never ever dull or commonplace. ..."></div> </div> </div>

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