Epic To Mandela

By: Deji Adeloye

As I stood to watch the beautiful land of Africa,

What trembled in my heart was love and spirit filled joy,

I have been there a thousand times,

Where workers work like a mechanical machine

Suddenly,

Africa was evaded by the whites,

Speech was given to us to conceal our thoughts,

But each time we spoke we were beaten like a drum,

They controlled all their heads in the land

Suddenly grew a man,

A true man of valour,

Who advocated generally for the blacks,

Even when made to stop but he never relented,

But instead he stood in tears amidst the alien corn

In our body, hearts and souls,

Lives on Mandela,

A true man of his people,

All hail Mandela.

In the process, they deceived men of Africa,

Who lived in ignorance,

God made man, man made money, money made man mad,

And leaving Africa in ignorance,

But all the same we are one,

All hail Mandela.