As We Sail Towards Jubilee
When I was a baby boy
Playing with a toy
Silky songs they fed us with
Though there were little cheats
Silky songs
O silky songs
Silky songs with something to eat
Silky songs with butter and wheat
When I was a little lad
Milking with some cards
Things were not that bad
As we rolled some willing wads
Silky songs
O silky songs
Silky songs were silky stewed
Silky songs we meaty chewed
Now I am a man all over town
Everywhere is painted with frowns
As many things are going wrong
Hardship is biting very strong
Silky songs O silky songs
‘Kpuho-kpuho’ with silky songs
Silky songs O silky songs
Silky songs so strong and wrong
Their dirty games so saintly continue
Though we are so black and blue
With healing hope getting few and few
Masses flesh they chew anew
Silky songs O silky songs
Silky songs so wrong and strong
Where are we going
With these silky songs?
What are you doing
With their silky songs?
(Written May 31, 2010, and published by Compass Newspaper on June 6, 2010)
Comment:
"...I really like the poem...this silky songs."
-Gabriel Y. Adebiyi
Author: Rhapsodies of a Corper.
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