WITHOUT A CHURCH WEDDING
My face is covered
With the beauty of civilization.
Let me wash my face!
Ogini n'eme?
My mothers are becoming fathers
And our fathers are deserting fatherhood.
When our children grow to pick
From the calabash of culture,
No one will be around to say the kolanut ritual
Because our faces are covered
With the beauty of civilization.
Let me wash my face!
Ogini n'eme?
When we can't know the depth
That wields the secrets of tomorrow;
Our daughters will keep nagging
And our sons will fly to the jungle
Because our fathers have lost their pencils
Which will scribble in our DNAs
The pride of an African.
Let me wash my face,
Because I'm blinded
By your beauty O civilization!
We can't see if we don't wash from our rivers;
See from our mother's pot
The joys of motherhood.
We can't see fine
If we don't tap from our palm trees
Our father's ideology of Africa.
Let me wash my face
Because I'm blinded by your beauty;
You who's veil fans our timid perception
To believe we're fornicators
Without a church wedding.
Let me wash my face once more
Because I need to see clearly
How beautiful we suffer before your presence.
ogini n'eme - Igbo statement meaning "What is happening?
Beautiful poem that tells us about the origins and why they should not be lost, man not only in Africa in the whole world is losing its essence of being, of being an essentially social human being that responds to a culture and its duty is to defend the culture where he was born, he has detached himself from his genes, he has detached himself from his ancestors, his poem reflects and the image is beautiful, greetings that he is very well
Thanks, you totally nailed the ideology behind the poem. We no longer have cultures of our own.
We have gotten so used to copying another man's culture rather than promoting and believing in ours.
The image is a photo from my friend's traditional wedding.
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That's deep.