AFRICA: As We Are

we've been risen
driven and discovered.
laced and shaken, worked and worn.
we have been inspired, beat, awoken and have become movement.

we need no pity, our hearts pure with pride,
we dance on.
we need no sympathy, our skies cry tears of a million stars.
we need no snow, we claim the sun as our friend.
'Pretty' she lies in all directions,
our blanket made of galaxies, our fiery rich soil, winds of bliss and water of life.

we've been risen, knocked down and risen again.
we've been taught the turmoils and the easy,
crime and the good
the purely intense and evil.

we've been mugged, imprisoned, set free!
we still ululate and rejoice the grace that is us,
the glory that is amongst us, in all our capacity.
the beauty imprinted in our skin.
that dwells in our smiles as we with nature.

we've been risen and signed our creed in the sky!

Gino Obuseng