Lament of an Ambazonian Revolutionary
By Professor Peter Wuteh Vakunta
Weep not child![i]/
My heart bleeds for you!/
I weep for all the/
Lost souls of Ambazonia!/
Strangers in their homeland/
Beasts of no Nation/
I lament for the unborn kids/
Of the Republic of Ambazonia/
Hijacked kith and kindred/
I mourn for the Six School/
Kids murdered in Kumba/
Decimated by the vampires of Paul Biya/
On October 24, 2020 in the restive/
Town of Kumba in a school/
Sandwiched in Fiango neighborhood/
The Infamous Mother Francisca/
International Bilingual Academy/
We shall never know/
The real motives behind/
This gruesome murder but be it/
Known that this infamy was not/
The handiwork of Ambazonian/
Freedom fighters; rather it was a/
Machination by the Biya Regime/
To baptize Ambazonian
Freedom Fighters as Terrorists/
Hogwash! Baloney!
I HAVE A DREAM…
That one day Ambazonia/
Will be free. Utterly free/
Free! Free! Free at last!/
From the rubble of decay/
And of decrepitude/
Will rise a New Nation/
Rejuvenated Republic of Amba!/
Not by thunderstorm/
Not by tornado/
Not by hailstone/
Nor by neck-lacing/
Not by house-torching/
Nor by manslaughter/
Not by kangaroo courts/
But by the mettle and bravado/
Of diehard Ambazonians/
Armed with the resolve to be free!/
We’re birds of passage/
Of good omen/
Of bad omen/
Of mixed omens.
Peter Wuteh Vakunta, Ph.D.
Endnotes
-----------
[i] Title of a novel by Ngugi wa Thiong’o
No comments:
Post a Comment