Efe Benjamin - ' My Africa Home

My Africa, my home <br />As I cast back my mind <br />To days before I left <br />Before you left me impotent <br />Before the wars broke <br />Before thieves and looters <br />Who parade themselves <br />As politicians <br />Took over your affairs <br />Before morale and hopes <br />were lost, and both old <br />And young, left your shores <br />To 'I dont know where' <br />When I think of what <br />This modernisation has <br />done to you, I weep; <br />Men, thinking, <br />and inventing <br />everyday, <br />New and more <br />sophisticated kind of <br />weapons, <br />For the destruction of the <br />Fellow man. <br />It is almost three decades <br />now, and I still think of you <br />Like yesterday.<br /><br />Efe Benjamin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/my-africa-home/