SO LONG MADIBA

Can you feel the emptiness,

Of the stained sadness in the sober wind,
It was only yesterday,
That the Owl hooted upon the fragile fingers of Our Mothers roof,
We knew a dirge was coming . . .
Its signs were printed on the footprints of Life
And even the grief in the naked sky,
was filled with grey energy . . .

Can you feel the emptiness at the crack of dawn,
Where even the still air begins to mourn,
And I still feel your presence, feeding the world with an ancient language of selfless music,

It is not enough to dance to the tunes from your shadows
Where are “OUR LEADERS”?
Reaping blindly from the vanity of a fools harvest?

OGA MADIBA – Where do we go from here ?

by Tony Tokunbo Fernandez