AGAIN SHE RISE –by Dopse Jere
Under the terrors of pains
Clothed with thick leather of oppression and subjugation
She died and resurrected
Amidst yellow and pale skin
Who saw no WHITE in her
Because they were overwhelmed By their prejudices
In the midst of toils and snare
The black back bent with sweat Of oppression
Colonized to disorganize
The yellow skins thought
Of her as their enemy
As an ape, as a devil
An heathen Savage
Desperate for redemption
By being instilled on
A sense of perception, reasoning
The Grace of modernization
And civilization
Through severe exposure
To hard Labour, maltreatment
And disorientation.
So the yellow skins thought
Of themselves
Her redeemer, teacher , mentor.
A monkey,without them
And so needed tutorials
So she could be initiated
Into human hood
This they did by making sure
She WEPT , that she mourned
That she SUFFERED
That she even lost her numerous
Children in the process.
So amidst her wailings
Amidst her cracked back under the cane of colonization
Was strength, like the eagle
She sprang the LIONESS in her
At the point she couldn’t persevere any longer
Then she said NO to the
cathedral of doom
She said yes to IDOTO
There and then, she ROSE again
Now with strength of the eagle
She RISE
Into a full grown woman
She RISE
Into a world that awaits her
She RISE
Phenomenally, she RISE.
