Arise O Africa
O Africa, arise out of obscurity
To give your glory security
O Africa, flee from corruption
to release your beauty from detention
Wash away your filthiness
Shrouding your greatness
O Africa, arise and shine.
O Africa, why look beggarly
When treasures housed by you
Begs to be harnessed?
O Africa, your children mourn
Hunger scorns them
Poverty beclouds them
Their skins are keen
To fall off their body
Hope lost like a needle in darkness.
O Africa, darkness envelopes you as air
Why should that be so?
"Boom" "krrrrrrrrrrr" "gbos" I hear
I need to flee
It seems peace has been stolen again
This poem must be laid to rest
Let me find safety for my head.
Ah! Africa, where is the future
When the present resents peace?
Ah, I could still hear wailings
Will these cries not cease?
When will your rising be
When you have fallen greatly?
Arise Africa, O Africa arise
Dust off your feeble knees
Arise Africa, O Africa arise
Quench the tears of your children.
Written by : Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom
Author of The Light Bearer @
Paperback
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Kindle edition:
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O Africa, arise out of obscurity
To give your glory security
O Africa, flee from corruption
to release your beauty from detention
Wash away your filthiness
Shrouding your greatness
O Africa, arise and shine.
O Africa, why look beggarly
When treasures housed by you
Begs to be harnessed?
O Africa, your children mourn
Hunger scorns them
Poverty beclouds them
Their skins are keen
To fall off their body
Hope lost like a needle in darkness.
O Africa, darkness envelopes you as air
Why should that be so?
"Boom" "krrrrrrrrrrr" "gbos" I hear
I need to flee
It seems peace has been stolen again
This poem must be laid to rest
Let me find safety for my head.
Ah! Africa, where is the future
When the present resents peace?
Ah, I could still hear wailings
Will these cries not cease?
When will your rising be
When you have fallen greatly?
Arise Africa, O Africa arise
Dust off your feeble knees
Arise Africa, O Africa arise
Quench the tears of your children.
Written by : Kolade Olanrewaju Freedom
Author of The Light Bearer @
Paperback
www.amazon.com/dp/
Kindle edition:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/
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