Aug 302012
Things Fall Apart
Adamant mindsets In a modern setup, Vibrant visions evaporates To emptiness, nothingness and waywardness. Leaving the people in stark darkness, Leading to nowhere, As penury is declared "king", Hunger succeeds the throne As blind leaders hardened the Economy like bone. Giving peanuts to the peasants But gold for the wealthy, Oh! what a chess game in the midst Of blind spectators..... Mothers swaying in tattered rags, Struggling with drying breasts which Produces the hopeful milk of the skinny infants... Children strolling with empty plates Searching for who to wet their throats. Fathers planting courage and assurance, Hoping the land will be milky someday, Yet the center is not holding For heads are plenty but the brains are few... Therefore turning weakening hearts To marauding crooks, Victimizing themselves, Staining their whites, Be litling their lives, Insulting their hands Making the land stink, While Africa bears the smell, To the detriment of her virtue. Our agricultural and peaceful "green white green", they've turned to A dark and bloody "red black red". Now who leads who in this Criminal war front, corrupt justice And indecisive generation? Things fall apart when truth step aside, Evil takes the lead when black minds Score the goal... Things fall apart when the people can't merge.
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Evang. charles melody @charlesmelody4life
I am dark or brownish or anyone you choose. tall, not fat, not tin, not muscular but slim. i am from a large family, was born and brought up in Jos, plateau state but originally from Benue state. Had a rough beginning but things are now better in Christ. i write poems, essays and other forms of literary art. i think alot,observe alot, talk less and mostly alone. i believe solitude is the attitude that takes one to his altitude. many people look, few people see..many say am gentle, some say am quite, some call me nice... some say i have a good heart and some call me a gem while a handful of others are jealous. but MY CHRIST KNOWS ME BETTER... I am not rich, not a beggar but know one day i will surely be rich as prefare to be holy first.. above all, i will die evangelizing.Go to Evang. charles melody's profile, and read more of his/her posts.
“Yet the center is not holding
For heads are plenty but the brains are few…”
The above lines “finished’ this poem for me.
Respect!
But, evangelist, that your bio is something else.
hahahaha…. why? abi?
THANK YOU SO MUCH AND AM GRATEFUL.
red black red O! I like this. Well done.
er… ok I got the message loud and clear… wondering though,this was a rant abi?
i no know oo… my own be say i don pass my message wey God give me. u hea Daireen@daireenonline
mehn, u good o. dat line na ‘line 4 africa’ …my new favourite saying
Well done
thank you and i appreciate all