Wednesday, 2 October 2013

THE DARK SIDE OF THE NIGHT



THE DARK SIDE OF THE NIGHT 

We keep searching and looking
International flights we keep booking,
The highs and the lows
Still frozen in our colonial laws.

our abandoned tribes scream our names
but we are too shy to look back there.
Birthed from a dark past we are
History, our mother is her.

We vomit on the graves of our ancestors
to crawl under the wallet of our investors.
Our prophets trade prophecies with suits and ties
And our saints are lost in the tastes of wines and pies.

Here the night has fallen,
The frogs are calling
The stars keep falling.
Burning candles freeze and darkness burn so bright.
Dressed in darkness, our culture gasps
Like a dying dream.

Our prayers fly with arrogant ambitions,
Overshadowing our own identity…
We fail to tell our shadows from ourselves
Because much of us is in our shelves.

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