Dear Founding Fathers

Dear Founding Fathers||Ayomide Lawal

Your sapless voices and your wrinkles,
are like pieces of paper you always read from.
It seems the ancestors have banished you
from entering the garden of wisdom.
Or why can’t you force flowers fragrance?
And make antidotes of peace
for the sick lands dying for deliverance.
The crown is heavy, your chicken necks need ease.
Jaded are your tail ends on the throne
The staff of authority you hold fails in ruling.
Now, we youths yen to fete your dethrone.
Heathier, fitter and better Africa is our preaching.

We want leaders that can walk us front,
when night falls with just dimness of moonlight.
Not legs shaking like leaf upon seeing storm they can’t brunt.
Without fear of taking bullets in our eyes, we want our rights,
we want camel minds to march forward.
Soldiers that won’t lose their boots when battle gets tough,
Eyes that pledge loyalty to dear Africa onward.
Rest now grey hairs, you have done enough
give in to young bones in rebuilding these lands.
Like African colonies did for our independence,
we shall repaint the faint images of heroism and
mold a strong victory and liberty fences.

BIO

Lawal Barakat Ayomide is a third year student of Linguistics And African Languages at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. She is a native of Ede, Osun State.She writes poems for Akorewrites and one of her pieces was published in the Elegance Dreamers anthology.
She is a passionate writer who wants her words to be a light to the darkness in Africa and the world at large. She is a passionate advocate of better humanity who sees every works of arts as a medicament that can heal the world. She also loves meeting new people.