Unthankable Betrayal.
A Poem by Peleson
This is a powerful poems that is all about cultural conflict(Black culture and White culture) it also try to highlight the evil of slavery and brainwashing of Africans into slavery.
Through
countless passages I pass through,
Sorrow and grief written all over thou face,
Thou face that survived every unthankable weather, Weather of unimaginable pains, lost and sorrow,brought by the white men, O life!! why have thou slap me in thy face? with betrayal, O the worst of all is been betrayed by thou brother, Whom I share the same milk from thou mothers breast,
Thou brother who pact with the white men to uproot thy three of civilization, Unknown to me is my root, thy once blossom tree has been
Uprooted from thou root, my civilization has been cut short, Thy once flourish culture and tradition are now a thing of the past,
As my betrayal brother calls them, Even the gods hamlet
Who are unroofed, who shall now worship them, dance for them and sing, for them, There Song of bravery, o what an unthankable betrayal, O who will come to my aid, am left with nothing,
nothing after thy brothers chooses, foreign civilization,gods, culture, soil over ours, Unthankable betrayal,
I wander lonely like a cloud without destination,
In searching of thy long lost home, oh am broken, my civilization was slap in thy face, unthankable betrayal, where shall I start from, oh am lost, lost without face,
A face long since thorn apart, o I can’t be at grief for ever,
But I know someday redemption shall come.
© 2017 Peleson
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Author
PelesonLagos, Nigeria, Western., Nigeria
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I have a big passion for writing poems, short articles and am open to opinions. more..
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