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t. reflexion
t. reflexion
Sep 02, 2008 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

PRICE OF FREEDOM

PRICE OF FREEDOM It was in their interest firstTo scramble and partition the landStretching across the continentFor global economic adventuresIn the free and independent AfricaOf great ancestral heritage;They all came in flocksLike vultures and other scavengersThe wolves disguised as sheepBearing the Lord’s Holy GrailFor the supplicating soulsThey came with wine and jewelsFor our fancy and intoxicationThey came to save and to serveWith claims of Divine AuthorityTo form his majesty’s governmentWith strings to wrestle a puppet’s danceTo tunes of metallic shotsAnd songs of exploitationThat was the price for our freedomTo hate, fight and kill one another

— t. reflexion, Sep 02, 2008

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Country/Region: NGA

Favorite Poets: Inspired by an article in an old manuscript , It reads:, AXIOMS OF PERFECTION, In the physical order – In the realization of the dream of beauty, In the moral order – In the realization of the dream of love, In the intellectual order – In the realization of dream of poetry, In the spiritual order – In the realization of the dream of the mystics

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