The 'Upright Man'- Ode to Thomas Sankara
Time ticked away into years
Twenty-nine is gone
Memories of you
Impregnate the air
Twenty-nine gone so fast
Yet, you ride the currents
Splash tears of blood
In the minds of men
Twenty-nine is gone
But you surge like waves
On a violent beach
Recede but quietly loud
Twenty-nine today
Your Rainbow is up
Your star shining brighter
Your Judas languishing
Twenty-nine years and counting
Nostalgia shall roam Quagadougou
Smell of cold dark blood
Shall bleach the streets
Loud cheers shall never stop ringing
Come back upright man
That Africa only needs
Thomas Sankaras.
Dim Chijike Ndukwu
East Orange, NJ.
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