Submitted By: Bethel Nwaogwugwu

They were whisked away in a whimsy manner.
Clad in goddamn rags
Tightly chained to their legs
They whip them with a pleasure in a way
Amidst wailing and crying
Until the laborious trudge staggeringly took them to departure routes
With a morbid barking orders
They were initialled with red-hot iron

In whippy nature caused by hunger
They were crammed in a whiffy container
Off they depart, from African seashores to the white waterways
Bread served with expired and rancid sardines
Every now and then one slumps and dies
Expectantly; the dead reckoning crewmen
Strutting their strut in a strut manner
Feast the sharks with their victim's remains
Those who made the weird journey
Becomes Aristocratic “living tool”
Crammed in a rickety ranch house
Securely welded iron with a dead bolt
Assigned to their dead end job
Sent into Sierra at their master's behest
For countless years this humiliation continued
Courtesy of a banquet at Opis

Alexander prayed for the union of hearts (Homonoia)
Prayed for joint commonwealth of Nations
And Cicero argues “ justice is an intrinsic good”
All these were they “ crowning glory in Roman jurisprudence”.
Today, Slavery has gone
But it bequests the world legacy of rancour
Not quite too long.
The white hates the sight of blacks
Then they preferred to kiss their dog to blacks
They mourn their dog more than their black gardener
They used blacks to test the efficacy of mines
They depict devil artistically as black
They doubt if were of same God
Apart from Nashville wanton massacre
Apart from calling us a race of apocalypse
Apart from likening us as a race without legacy for humanity
Apart from defiling our land
Apart from conning us with religion
God; many sordid things happened to the blacks

Today; without making reparations to us
Without making a formal and solemn atonement
We’re marching on a threshold of globalisation
We’re on threshold of reunification
Seemingly as it seems to be today
The savagery of a man makes the world to looses sleep
Oh God; thanks, for removing that that makes blacks
Strange strangers on earth
Thanks for fulfilling the dreams of Martin Luther King (JR)
Ultimately; thanks for the fulfilment of the prayer at Opis is here.

©Bethel Nnaemeka Nwaogwugwu, 2002
Facaulty of Law
University of Calabar