Giant Of Africa Poem by ObiGod Chidi CC

THE GIANT OF AFRICA

The giant's not asleep but awake in stupor,
Intoxicated by his minerals, his value sold.
The richest charges from the ranks of the poor.
Tattered saddles offset his feet that thresh gold.
He crawls even with a size that commands fear.
Jeered as endemic carnage staggers his balance.
Plagued with ethnicities that agitates his tear.
The virus of corruption drills, infests his stance;
Infected neurons are patriots selfishly malignant.
After his eclipse with half of the yellow sun,
That's partially maimed yet rises copiously indignant;
His sun sets with the revelations of tribal pun;
As preachings of religions breach his fake unity.
O Giant in chains! Lose the fetters of self enmity.

©10-07-2015