1. TRIBUTE TO ALUU 4

   

   
   

   A land I know not
   
   The ground that never swallowed my placenta
   
   A strange land I was sojourned
   
   The same sand I walked on.
   
   In the quest for knowledge
   ...

   
   In the pursuit for mental liberation, I met my end
   
   The desired end I dream t of was shattered by a people within.
   
   I prayed for a fruitful day at dawn
   
   Instead I was offered a bitter tale I couldn't tell
   
   The same people within.
   
   Oh! How my blood turns cold in my helpless watch
   
   My blood cried for hope as each stick hit my scalp
   
   Oh! Their scream for death was deafening
   
   My nakedness was made public with shame as my cover
   
   My nakedness meant nothing to me; all I cared was to be heard
   
   My ears were filled with the whispers of death
   
   No hope is all I hear; helpless is all I see in the weakening lid of my friends.
   
   Our soul paths in same way
   
   Mama, I cried for her love
   
   Papa I yearned for his spank, than these barbarians on me
   
   Did God watch too?
   
   Did he repent that he created these people?
   
   Did mama feel her heart melt as I painfully transformed into a ghost?
   
   Can my sin be matched with my own kind of death?
   
   Can these babarains say they are without sin?
   
   Why then did they cast their stones on me?
   
   Was he heart broken?
   
   This is my Golgotha
   
   The machete to my head, the tires around my neck,
   
   The scream from my soul, my joy and pain, my faith,
   
   My curse, my destiny, my tears, my blood.
   
   My hope,my plans,my future, my memories.
   
   A land I know not, ALUU
   
   They took it all from me
   
   My blood is crying out.
   
   Who do I blame?
   
   Lawlessness, wickedness,ignorance cruelty?
   
   It doesn't matter cos I’m gone
   
   But my cry should be heard
   
   Please do something that I may not die in vain.
   
   They took it all
   
   A strange Land took it all

   By Victoria Dada