Monday, July 9, 2007

Glimpses of a New Age


For Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev

Devoid of lust shall float weightless,

Man's body, flying falcons in the sky.

Visible to all like cloths men wear,

Naked intentions

Secret thoughts.


Washington and Moscow partners

In quest of the earth's survival shall be:

Dissolve the South and North.

Poverty-stricken lands become royal estates

A mighty sun rises

In a land now oppressed,

In a land once deemed dark,

Uncivilized.


The Bhagavad-Gita in Christian temples shall be read,

The Bible in mosques with zest displayed,

Sikhs and Hindus shall live in peace;

Shall be enemies Jews no more of any race.


Of murderous crimes, deadly diseases

The earth shall be wiped clean.

Shall be keepers of the poor the rich

Divergent ideologies shall reconcile;

Of their union shall be born a maiden;

The mother of new conceptions of reality.

Terrorist threats shall there be no more

Tyrannical thrones shall there be no more

Injustice, inequality and poverty no more

When man's body shall float, flying falcons

In the sky, weightless, devoid of hatred

Devoid of lust.

Kwami Nyamidie

Port Harcourt, 1990