Vincent P. Magombe

"AFRICA'S MIRACLE SONG"

(By Vincent P. Magombe, London, May 1994.)
              
           [Africa is a continent full of suffering, death
           and chaos... Yet a miracle seems to be happening!
           We must not despair, where there is hope! This
           poem, which invokes memories of Martin Luther
           King, was written on the day the first black
           President was inaugurated in South Africa.]



Here comes the Wind...
               Here comes the Wind of Freedom...
Blowing Gently -
               Blowing Roughly...
Here comes the Wind...


Blowing - over the Green Mountains of Mbale!
Blowing - in the River Valleys of Nambale!
Blowing - across the Desert-lands of Sahara!
Blowing - in the Wonderlands of Kalahari!


Here Comes the Wind....


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"I have a Dream!"  .... he said .... "I have a Dream!"
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Can You hear -
               The Sweet... Sweet... Sweet Song?
Can You Hear -
               The Rhyme... of the Freedom Gong?


I... Hear -
               The Song... in the Soft Whispers of Hope!
I hear it coming -
               Fresh... as a Sprouting Crop!


Ooooooh... Africa -
               The Land of Song and Gong...
Ooooooh... Africa -
               My Mother to Whom I belong...


We shall Go -
               All the Way Long to Redemption!
We shall Dance -
               And Sing at the Heart of Liberation!


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I... Have a Dream!"  .... he said .... "I... Have a Dream!"    
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Once upon a Time...
               The Fortune Tellers told of a Miracle...
They told - of a Miracle,
               In the Shadows of Oppression!
They told - of a Miracle,
               The Miracle of Liberation!


Oooh, Come Miracle,
                 South Africa,
                              Oooh, Come Miracle...
It has come -
               Like a Whirl-Wind...
                          In the Land Full of Winds!
It has come -
               Like a Storm...
                          In the Land Full of Storms!
It has come -
               With the Full Moon...
                          In the Middle of a Tropical Night!
It has come -
               With the Rising Sun...
                          At the Break of a Sunny Day!


Once upon a Time...
               The Fortune Tellers told of a Miracle...

They told - of a Miracle,
               In the Shadows of Oppression!
They told - of a Miracle,
               The Miracle of Liberation!


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"I have a Dream!" ... he said ... !I have a Dream!"
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Tomorrow...
           Africa's Children -
                      Shall Rejoice...
                              In a Dream-Come-True!

Vincent P. Magombe
Copyright by Vincent P. Magombe