NGOZI OLIVIA OSUOHA - IF YOU SEE GADDAFI ​

Ngozi Olivia Osuoha is a young Nigerian poet/ writer and a graduate of Estate Management. She has some experience in banking and broadcasting. She has published some works abroad in some foreign magazines in Ghana, Liberia, India and Canada, among others. She enjoys writing.

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IF YOU SEE GADDAFI ​

A desert is no home
A wilderness is no Palace, 
A sea is no empire 
A hell is no heaven, 
A war is no victory. 

Silver or gold, I have not
But I can work for you, 
I am a freeborn 
The green dream of Africa, 
For what is oil without man
And gold without him? 
For I am a liquid gold
And a concrete oil.

If you see Gaddafi 
Tell him, there is a tsunami, 
A war warring for a war
Upon loading a war. 

If you see Gaddafi 
Tell him, no dollar nor euro
No pound nor currency can buy Africa. 
 
And for the tens they torture
The dozens they maim
For the scores that drown
And the hundreds they rape, 
For the grosses they exploit
And the thousands they starve, 
If you see Gaddafi 
Tell him, there is a war. 

They roast, they auction, 
They mutilate, they jail
They kill, they enjoy
If you see Gaddafi 
Tell him, the war is on. 

Tell him, there is a disaster 
A war, an unfathomable one
Beyond age, beyond time
Beyond humanity, beyond wonder,
Beyond the border we ponder.

If you see Gaddafi 
Tell him, slavery is timid
Archaic, primitive and backward
Ungodly, unjust, cruel and absurd 
Inhumane and carnivorous. 
Tell him of an era, new and generational 
Free, free, free, free and free freedom. 

If you see Gaddafi 
Tell him the tales of Africa and slavery ,
Tell him that enough is enough.

If you see Gaddafi, 
Tell him Africa is not a slave. 
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