Poetry Delight ends this week with a another great poem by Cecilia Sefa Amoafowaa.

In this piece, she advises leaders and citizens alike to protect Ghana's sovereignty no matter their political affiliations.Enjoy!

STILL THE LAND STANDS

If the winds destroy the umbrella

And the elephant finishes all the grassy trees

And the cock pecks all the worms and crumbs

And the eagle eats the cock

Do remember

Still the naked land stands

II

The naked land will stand

Disgraced

Like a queen caught by the prostitution law

Of an unforgiving god

As stones from rejected lovers

Leave Indelible scars

On her once fresh and fertile frame

III

The naked land will still stand

Like a waterless well

Which once quenched the thirst

Of all throats

Watching helplessly like a prisoner

As thirst drags its beings

Into holes of hell

IV

The naked land will still stand

Like a farm turned dessert sand

Hating itself for killing its own

When it turns into the hands of the winds

To slap its children

Through noses to lungs

 

V

The naked land will still stand

Like a clown

In the middle of a lively town

Wearing the shameless gown

Of naught

Dancing to the ridicules of draftsmen

Whose happy palms get greased

Thanks to their apt predictions

And history ascribtions

VI

The naked land will still stand

Sold cheaply off to some maniacs

Who rape and pimp it in parts

To  use as a rubbish damp

With fetuses so famished

Fishing through dirt to see daylight

VII

It behoves the grasses

Of today

To protest in protection

By putting minds in correction

In positive reaction

Uprooting inaction

To soar the land's production

To let nature do transactions

Of changing generations

Minds opened to thinking

Wake!

Know the land will still stand

Damned and disgraced

Or Great and glorious

Your acts today

Making the choice of tomorrow

Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia (c) August 13, 2016