THE COTTON - BY OLANIYI ABDULWAHEED
If debt has squeezed the
ribs of your hope
And your sun, stranded in
the strife
With every penny, you
journey in exile
Here, see the mirror
reflecting the sun of your day
I
swam in the oily sea, I drowned
Lodged
in merchandise of barrels, I lost
Dying
in the raucous of inflation
But
here the holy-wood, saved my soul.
Listen to the sonorous
song of the savannah
Heed the holy message of
the wood
Tarnish not the white
garment of my cotton
Hasty to the textile,
beckons the cotton.
I
swam in the oily sea, I drowned
Lodged
in merchandise of barrels, I lost
Dying
in the raucous of inflation
But
here the holy-wood, saved my soul.
The flesh is
agile like the skin of omelette
The blood is
naked than the skin
Every vein
shivers, every eye is blind
If failed to
honour the counsels by cotton
I
swam in the oily sea, I drowned
Lodged
in merchandise of barrels, I lost
Dying
in the raucous of inflation
But
here the holy-wood, saved my soul.
Textile, the
lord of every beauty
The hope of
clever merchant
In the heart of
the North, the cotton
The dawn of
merchant’s day.
I
swam in the oily sea, I drowned
Lodged
in merchandise of barrels, I lost
Dying
in the raucous of inflation
But
here the holy-wood, saved my soul.
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