Africa! By Thomas Rogers Muyunga Mukasa
Africa!
In the days before Gondwana,
it was decreed there would be Africa,
when it came to pass lo and behold!
there were no countries nor counties,
only bounding animals and bounties,
no religions caused wars,
no races hid behind walls,
eking out sustenance was all,
pioneer tribes coexisted with flora and fauna,
from which cloth, food, wood and seed came,
little wonder from Africa tribes were born,
some left to repeat what was done in Africa,
those who stayed continued giving and taking,
Africa the prodigious Mother with unstoppable fecundity,
a rainbow creases your face,
deep gorges mark your stoutness,
rivers and lakes your watering eyes,
all forms of land patches make your robes,
your breadth and heights symbols of promise,
feed the people, animals and birds,
be the shelter and refuge for all.
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