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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2020
Is kindness wickedness to oneself?
I thought we were taught to love
But not more than ourselves
Why then,
Why then did you give up yourself
Your beauty;
Blossoming hibiscus of the sub-Sahara
Black like ebony
Pine with avid curves
for your love for another?
Mama!
Great twine of the forest
Akiri that brings the trees in the forest together
Lend tomorrow eyes that it may see clearly
Infiltrators!
Be human again
To see the squeezed, exhausted face of the monkey
And hear the shrewd cry of the antelope
For the pains on the donkey's back is obvious.
Palms can never cover pregnancy
Devourers of nature for culture!
The earth mourns in silence
The tree twists and twitches
And the eye of the earth is epileptic already
How unfathomable you have become
Oh loving seasons!
For desires insatiably sought
Moribund
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