In the gospel of your name
They invaded our land
Re-christened,our names
We are the brutish savages
Half-human,devil-skinned
We are the feather-brained
The dark-eyed with sinful squint
We are the mistakes
Of a perfect God
We are the dusky dots
The wrinkles on your pristine planet
You are the truth
And they are your chosen agents
You are the word
But,they are the world
God! They are plunderers
To the glory of your name?
In your name God
Our brothers prey
Like voracious vultures
On our emaciated skulls
They said you joy
And your thirst quenched
When our blood
Gulp out of the shores
By the whettingstone side
You are a glutton
To juicy blood of your hapless creatures.
And whose name if not yours
We wave to the wretched wind
Waiting incognito
Wandering the world of wishes
Veiled are our eyes
We stare at the sun in the sky
Reeling in dainty dreams
Of seeing the suave stars
And the lullaby of their sugary mouths
Opiate our sullen eyes
Done with our sojourning slumbers
Our impaired eyes
See them like birds
Flying in the sky
Jetting from Mecca to Medinah
Searching for Anselm in Jerusalem
In your name we are robbed
In your ridiculed name
Their kids inherit the lands
Where our fathers toiled
And while in your name
They flaunt the riches ill-gotten
They sing Halleluyah
Downside the sepulchre
Of their neighbours
Who found naked cruelty
At the sight of kwashiokor.
In your name God
We have seen hope
In your name God
We have seen hopelessness
In your name we have smiled
To cry like we never smiled.
Ogunniran Gideon Olufemi (Ogidiolu Afrocentric)
