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Celebration of our Gifts and Talents

Songs  Spirituals   Readings

ROBBERY OF A CONTINENT

Waves from the sea

Brought unto me

The news of my ancestors;

How they travelled all jammed,

Snatched and in a small hole crammed,

When they left the continent;

Wide open space, and life content.

Rivers told my soul

They’d all been bold

But they all didn’t survive.

Only a few were still alive;

Respect for their lives disappeared,Author of              

When forced from the continent;

With wide open space and life content.

The new minority,

Having no seniority.

Twenty two percent of the world’s land;

Of earth’s continent, it runs second.

Living in tenement held by so-called superior.

Ripped from the continent;

Where they had wide open space to their content.

Tacit winds of ill omen,

Mourn the death of our men;

A people in thrall of men spewed from afar.

Generations at dis-ease; a permanent scar;

Gems robbed and sold for no profit to us,

When they raped the continent;

Leaving wide open space to their own content.

Life started in Motherland,

Love started with the African.

The lines of the Sahara quite distinct;

Beautiful Kilimanjaro, in indelible ink.

African Diaspora robbed of its dignity.

Grabbed; nay torn from the continent,

Leaving wide open space and life in discontent!

God gave us His son, so our lives would be won;

Not lost at sea, but our souls would be free

If we claimed the victory,

Through the principles of:

1) Umoja = Unity

2) Kujichagulia =Self-determination

3) Ujima = Collective work and Responsibility

4) Ujamaa = cooperative Economics

5) Nia = Purpose

6) Kuumba = CreativityAnd

7) Imani = Faith.

Faith to believe in all our heart in our people, our parents, our teachers,     our leaders and the righteousness and victory of our struggle!

by Jennifer Lumley

 

 

Lumley, a licensed Financial Specialist, expresses her passion for poetry and prose, in her books, MIND SHAPER and STILL LIFE. Her works are carefully carved out, thought provoking ideas, that raise issues for great discourse on a variety of subjects, including, but not limited to, beauty, love, culture, life and nature.

The Author can be contacted at

[914] 663-5161

Or

www.jenuinpoetry.com

 

Jennifer Lumley

Author of  

MIND SHAPER(copyright)

And many other poems and writings