Alumuka
The people of Alumuka
that halcyon habitat
straddling the curve of the great Niger
home to a hospitable denizens
remarkable for their brilliance and generosity
yet, tarnished by time and history
and fettered allegations of not being born free
The people of Alumuka
Though to no caste do you belong
nor inferior your God Did ordain you
your fate, only man's inhumanity to his ilk
born of awesome quest to control and own
in bid to feel superior
But in contrast to your assignation,
the Omnipotent has great value and virtures bestowed
giving his love and favour to
his meek, dispossessed and rejected
affirming the wisdom that we ought not judge
but alas, who will mend the harm of time
that the wrongs wrought and may fall in line
straight, redressed and
sweet smelling like a pine.
© Oseloka Obaze, 1997
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