Ode To African Waters

Chukwuemeka Oluka
@emmanueloluka561455
10 months ago

Ode To African Waters:
A Poem by Chukwuemeka Oluka

Like mother nature and her young
You take the lead, we follow cheerfully
Your maternal direction keeps us safe
Our mouths lock on to your tributaries
To suckle, to drink; to full, to life
Your waves sing our babes lullaby at night
Your banks, their playground at day
We settle, we nest around your lush banks
Full of life, full of warmth
O, African waters! the oasis in our Sahel

From the rocky Mountains, to the Deltas
In your Rapids and Falls, Africa's story is fleshed
With a fine plot around her intestines
The story sails like a canoe upon the Nile
Her rubber, cotton, cocoa sails too like the canoe
In exchange for cowries, and later, hard currencies
On your waves, the colonial masters sailed
The slave coasts brought dirges
With melancholy, she sang
Our symphony, her freedom; taken

O, I blame you not; I dare not
On the balance of play, no love's lost
The storm is weathered
And the African identity now soars high
The sound of music echoes across your shores
And all dance to the Afrobeat
Like the General, you saw the war
You saw the victory and alas, Uhuru! Freedom
Take your flowers, O African waters
The ode is for you

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