DARK COUNTRY

DARK COUNTRY

In the past, before Michael Faraday

We lit torches and held candles

Oil lamps led our winding paths

Darkness hung heavy in the night

Lightening is the passion of the air

And earth with her magnetic pull

Hinted the coming of electricity

Darkness was pushed to the brink

We built dams and gas turbines

To engender the power of light

As it is done elsewhere all over

In the advanced world of men

We have a situation here, you see

Nothing seems to work at all

Imported generators are everywhere

Imagine the ocean of wasted fuel

From the nation’s electric company

Never expect power always

For it holds what it can not give

And a problem has changed name

Hear what the acronyms say-

Never expect power, NEP

Please light candles, PLC

For our world is in darkness

Take the cost of running generators

Carbon monoxide polluting our space

Amongst the world proud black people

In heat and mosquito dance at night

I heard them say…the giant,

Is the heart of African continent

But ours is the darkest country

Searching for light …