AFRICA FLIES AWAY

1.  I hung a head over my window and saw
2.  Africa in shreds flying away.
3.  My mind and voice called in a solemn
4.  Serene frail tone but no answer bounced.
5.  Like a rainbow eight colors the facets of Africa
6.  Dissolved in the air penetrating the atmosphere,
7.  Thermosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere,
8.  And the galaxies to be beyond reach for her safety.
9.  This altitude she knows her people are not opt for yet,
10. But later, and when? But will be costly by then.
11. On akimbo then in crossed fingers dilemma I stared.
12. On my pillow now I nodded for why she flies away,
13. And my ease and sorrow suppressed my worry.
14. But why she gives deaf ears, too, of complexity
15. And perplexity.
16. I'd have cried out again AFRICA! Come back please,
17. But on my pillow nights and nights,
18. Days and days passed by before I knew SHE
19. And HER people distrusted each other that's
20. The soil and the natives, while the East and West
21. Turned their backs. Are AFRICANS still in myth?
22. Her friends had cultured her wrong setting
23. And her own folks are sinking her abyss.
24. As "YAAHA" a norm and "JAGARR" a taboo.
25. Affirm her sanctity and socio-economic-political chaste.

26. Dare not mess up her status quo or status-quo ante.
27. "JAGARR" and "YAAHAA" will never meet,
28. Unmatched parallelism, like the cats and dogs
29. Political vendetta. CAN'T GO simultaneously! Never
30. She FLIES because these two are equal to
31. Letter O, or zero, unless the "YAAHA" dies and
32. The "JAGARR" lives.
33. The political Divas, the political Freaks,
34. The political Demagogues scared AFRICA
35. To fly away, living throats to drought and stomachs
36. To famine ---Did entrepreneurship, capital, or economy
37. Hung her a beggar? Amazing!
39. The rich continent as the Portuguese named her.
40. Are Africans the rulers of Africa?
41. Or the colonialists careless and we lesser?
42. Or is this the African people civilization or
43. The African land civilization?
44. Lamentable if she calls no AFRICAN witness
45. Because of distrust, yet she was alone
46. In the Diaspora, what a peril.
47. Should she asks herself to witness her, and any abuser,
48. If any, will be astonished or astounded.
49. Take a heed let the pure girl alone.
50. Is never a crime for isolated inability but it might

51. Be for interference with inability.
52. Is about commitment and involvement for AFRICA.
53. Lets not seduce her for she'll stand alone,
54. If loneliness suits, though her innocence flies away.
55. Poor girl! what's gone wrong with your love ones!
56. Thy dignity shines.
57. The sun will rise for you if they're gentle with you.
58. Come Africa, come the true builders.
59. Come honesty, intellectualism, resources, come!
60. Africa thou asked for love like the Smiling Coast,
61. The GAMBIA, within, no oppression shall accord, nor shall
62. Hate pollutes your goodly acts.
63. Arise we are short and you're tall
64. AFRICA the heart of the world map standing almost,
65. Like an edged heart in the center.
66. Africa is our experience not a test.
67. For her part as a beautiful and gorgeous
68. Lass, she loves us with diadem.
69. What's the matter with us to mistreat
70. A glamorous girl who loves us dearly?
71. How much instead to give if you own
72. A million Dollars or Dalasis to this pretty
73. Girl, or to share wisdom with her.
74. We all kiss her, and apologize, then take a U-turn
75. Or a three-sixty degrees and must we reverse towards her.

76. May the accidental captains get down on board.
77. Those who are sure with guaranteed heart, should woo,
78. The lass. Africa don't sink or allow your sinking.
79. I wonder on understanding the scientific formulas
80. And missing the bread and butter formulas, us,
81. Africans, is time to redress for even the SNOW.
82. Economics is now greed and politics is now power
83. From which the "YAAHAA" aspires from and ascribes to.
84. It's unfair to blame the land but the rulers more,
85. Still less for the ruled, too.
86. Education is the eyes of a nation.
87. Just an analytical cerebral cortex to eat
88. What the universe cooks and serves.
89. Obtain the world's MENU for yourself
90. Whilst you cook and serve, too.
91. Your loyal and royal ones, the books,
92. And computers have held the records
93. Whilst your "yet to born" will grief and
94. Question the crossroads, because all they'll
95. Adorn and yearn for will be beauty,
96. Moisturizers not wrinkles, not callouses.
97. A youth requires millenium energy to survive
98. The millenium tides.
99. Africa come we apologize and start again.
100. And GOD bless Africa!
.
    Dawda Kabba Jallow.2000

 Footnote.  Oolof words by the GAMBIA'S Wollof tribe--
                 Meanings as used in the context.

     JAGARR-- Means to develop.
    YAAHA--- Means to destroy.

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