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A Tribute to Bate Besong Printable Version PRINTABLE VERSION
by KRANSOME®, Cameroon Jun 3, 2007
Culture , Education , Peace & Conflict   Poetry

  

Tribute to B B

You knew too well the face of this day

These seasons that fed us with hunger and pain

You wailed out loud

As the cloak of darkness fell

As the chanting of the anthem fell out of rhythm

To the resonating sounds of the drums

You saw the scar- faced land, your land

And the knife sharp and stained with blood

You saw the desecration of the alter of Dreams

Your voice rose like thunder!

And we heard it

We heard it again and again

Hoping it will crack the sky

Hoping it will pierce the deafness of the false gods

Lording over the seven hills Onduaye

And did it?

You could no longer stand the heat of the torturous season

The humiliation of an impoverished race-

As you fired on with your vexed tongue

Who did not think your lips will split off!


I hear silence as after an echo

Silence that soaks like cold rain

I stare into space with dried out eyes

Having wrestled fiercely with life

You could not succumb to death in one piece


You departed in cherished company

Swiftly taken from our midst

Having answered your call

You finished your work

You finished it well.

F Akemfua
Bonanjo, Douala
Cameroon
www.BonassNetworks.com
5th April 2007.
Copyrights Kransome@BonassNetworks.com





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An epitome of the late scholar
Bemoute serge Mario | Sep 12th, 2007
Hi! while reading you once can notice the influence of the famous poet. Very interesting .Keep on

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