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Where Is Our Toil? (A Poem)

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Author: Okah Ewah Edede
Posted to the web: 2/21/2006 7:28:23 AM

WHERE IS OUR TOIL?  Once upon a time in history, ours was a happy story Told in starry climes afar. Who kept their doors ajar to embrace the land of harvest. Pride danced daily in our chest.
 Then came the wisemen from the north And we danced in the lions mouth, For You with the brass medals set the tunes, Our efforts became like great sand dunes which covers great treasures in dust, As we gap for air in our twilighting past.   But now, where is our sweat? You, who have been a long time cheat, Where have you hidden our harvest? As you walk about with military star crest, I search and wait ernestly for our toil which now takes earthly eternity to uncoil.

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