Showing posts with label POETICLICENSE. Show all posts
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Thursday, October 3, 2013

WESTGATE MALL ATTACK: REMEMBERING POET KOFFI AWOONOR



We are out of words so be borrow a few from the fallen Ghanaian poet Kofi Awoonor. From his poem Song of Sorrow. #weareone 



Something has happened to me
The things so great that I cannot weep; 
I have no sons to fire the gun when I die
And no daughter to wail when I close my mouth
I have wandered on the wilderness
The great wilderness men call life
The rain has beaten me, 
And the sharp stumps cut as keen as knives
I shall go beyond and rest.
I have no kin and no brother, 
Death has made war upon our house