Listen

" Listen or you'll lose it all, your ancestry, root, language and identity." — Mr I.A. Ajuzie 

listen, please, all of you, for I won't speak twice !

like a beggar's bowl placed for money, give me your ears for this advice

I came to speak, for silence have eaten away our bones

listen to the hollow of the empty tin can, thus our insides moans

I came to tell you to have courage

even if those possessing it do not get acquainted with old age

but without enough of us dying, we'll come

into this world as slaves and leave in slavery's bosom

listen please and find your way home

you've being lost for too long in this catacomb

listen, it pains me that I write to you in another man's tongue

that you forget home is not just a place but it exists in language and songs sung