<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=579935" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Time's sigh</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">messages flow<br>from Africa<br>declaring defiance<br>of time<br>in the beating <br>of the drums<br>bare hands <br>keep serving the air<br>with sound</div><div style="margin:10px 0">together I am<br>one person<br>a woman<br>not alone<br>my feet walk<br>this earth<br>hardened<br>by the mistreatment<br>of many hearts<br>the hearts <br>of the souls<br>of Africa</div><div style="margin:10px 0">my eyes search<br>through the sound<br>of the few<br>for a beam of love<br>and compassion<br>for a tune unbound<br>but reach you not<br>the king's tongue<br>is further away<br>away from women-<br>and children abide<br>in beds of straw<br>in a land over there</div><div style="margin:10px 0">where waterless cups<br>and power<br>without grace<br>could bind big hands<br>in disgrace<br>in the rhythm<br>of stones<br>and tripling bones<br>oh for the timely<br>sound of dew<br>on the tongue <br>of the moderately new</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for while time<br>is ticking<br>somewhere feet<br>are slamming<br>ignoring the cadence<br>of the stone choir singing-<br>children are kept quiet<br>under leaking roofs<br>the beat of history<br>is a thudding of hoofs<br>on the white bone<br>of Africa's <br>reluctance for peace</div><div style="margin:10px 0">softly a leopard<br>is waiting<br>on the back<br>of a bull<br>timely<br>for nations<br>to see<br>the weeping<br>of Africa<br>on a landslide<br>where time<br>collides in coins<br>of dust</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for all ways<br>take a day<br>in a thousand<br>or an hour<br>in a minute<br>is over <br>in a second</div><div style="margin:10px 0">will you<br>surrender then<br>to the smoke<br>of people's rights<br>or keep on<br>dancing on needs<br>in the name <br>of change to<br>a better world<br>for all…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">for there is<br>no ruling<br>over time<br>but Jerusalem</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Elna+Nel">Elna Nel</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=579935" data-title="Time's sigh de Elna Nel" data-description="messages flow from Africa declaring defiance of time in the beating of the drums bare hands keep serving the air with sound together I am one person a woman not alone my feet walk this earth hardened by the mistreatment of many hearts the heart..."></div> </div> </div>

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