BLACK YEARS
Looking out my balcony on a Sunday evening
I drew the world on a paper
Its axis from North pole to South pole
Its continents from Africa to Asia
Its Rivers from River Niger to River Nile
Crossing the red seas and Euphrates
Dreaming a climb on mountain Everest
Looking down the valleys of San Lius
As the moon smiles on the Nepal's flag
And the east rising sun of Biafran land
Why is the world so small on a sheet?
Like the time moving fast and round
but slowly in a clock
Like the four walls of a prison cell
Bail is free and freedom is priceless
Lo,Mandela painted the green light after twenty seven black years