I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING by NIYI OSUNDARE
I wear courage like a shield
Telling kings their fart chokes the village nose
I wear courage like a shield
And shout mountains of distance into plain touch
Rid of daunting echoes
Of the hillocks men build into forbidding peaks
Submerging valleys
He who has not seen the sea
Let him taste the salt in the stew
He who does not know fire
Let him watch a forest blaze
In the season before the rains
He who does not know the poet
Let him listen to the foot steps of words
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My words will not lie like a eunuch wind
Fluttering leaves in a barren forest
My words ll climb the tree of wisdom
Feed multitudes with fruits of thought
And plant the earth with potent seeds
For
I have women up this morning with a song in my throat
The chorus echoes across the world.
Excerpt from I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING
