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Joseph C Ogbonna Dec 2023
Africa my Africa; of resources rich.
Aggressively wooed because her potentials enrich.
Africa the bride, historically bid for.
The continent dark with opulent fields to explore.
Your labour past prospered farmers of the Occident.
Your hidden value takes the gaze of the Orient.
Not even the world's giants can your 'dwarfness' ignore,
as they compete for potentials concealed therein.
You seek for succour but your abundance lies herein.
Your pleasant shores will no more the brain drain witness.
Your lush green will spring forth from your feigned wilderness.
Africa my home will her charming beauty unveil.
No more will your poverty stricken let out a wail.
An optimistic poem for potentially rich Africa
the skies bled out
heading far South
chasing the polar lights
an energy so strong
resembling a geomagnetic storm
a force I could barely fathom
weakening the magnetosphere
peeling it open like an onion
all the stars outshined
leaving them smoldering with envy
sunspotting in the galaxy
slowly losing their luster
and collapsing into dwarfness.
thereā€˜s just something in the way
your flickering lights enchant the naked eye
like dancing glittery curtains across the night sky...
I am utterly besotted by you.

— The End —