THE SUN RISES FROM THE WEST AND SETS IN THE WEST by Mide Bene

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            Unmentionable silhouette of confusion

     Took our darkness into boats to decorate their

     Land to grow their pockets into purses

     And their purses became huge banks that

They said:

Everyday,

When the sun rises from the west

It sets in the west

And the rest became the chest

That darkness always dwelt.

So we said that they said that they had said that

They wanted to bring light into

The rest and redemption into the chest

Rather they brought the

Unmentionable silhouette of confusion

Took our darkness into boats to decorate their

Land to grow their pockets into purses

And their purses became huge banks that

We later stored our darkened resources

At those times when kaaki and agbada

Put our resources in flying kites

And took our darkness into

The land from where the sun rises and sets:

So the place of light anointed our darkness,

Blessed it and declared it clean for use

Not for us but for them to use.

Abomination: pooueh!

This is no abomination, it is reality