Leagues Day 28: MOHAMMED SHAMS-DEEN vs ONI TOMIWA

LIVE; MOHAMMED SHAMS-DEEN vs ONI TOMIWA

NOTE;
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THEME: HIDDEN TREASURES

MOHAMMED SHAMS-DEEN

Title: Tame of Africa's Riches 

Treasure is not treasure

When it is aided by every eye

There were treasures in fathers

Folded in holds of  jesus ships

Across the Mediterranean sea

But no treasures in the muscles

Of brothers who wade through the sea

Treasures in the strength that withstood every shackle

Treasure in the skull of Baquaqua

Who fought slavery with a pen

Treasure in Nkrumah, Mandela and they

Who sought light

To illuminate corners of Africa.

The scavengers had picked

The treasures that adorn Africa then; 

Treasures are still

Buried in the belly of Africa

For the vultures searching swoops.

Let the treasures in our skulls

Shame the scavengers away.

ONI TOMIWA

TITLE; HIDDEN TREASURES

Between the chest of this mount'

Treasures lie flat

Hidden before the eyes of men.

Only the eyes of the dreamers see

And the hands of the resilient

Bring them forth

From hardened wombs.

He who searches

For the lustrous tanzanite

Must endure the cold wind

Of the Kilimanjaro.

Do not murmur

At the harshness of life,

The rage of whirlwind

The burns of the sun...

He who must eat the honey from a mountain

Will not worry about the edge of an axe.

see,

Even the graveyard houses treasures;

Those wasted in life's combat

Drowned in the tempest

On life's sea.

Do not run with treasures unearthed

To the silence of the grave

Bring them forth

Before bouquets are left to dry

On cracked graveyards.