With dome covering our heavens. The cathedral brought an epidemic In it’s belly. The epidemic afflicted our community; Mostly women and youths, That they defaecated on our sacred shrines, And dancefully clapped their hands To a song their fathers did not learn.
Upon this bushy spot, A cathedral once stood,
Until time beamed some light Exposing the filth of those parsons And the deception of their profession. Now, the same youths Who rebelled against our ancestors Are demolishing the relic of the cathedral, Leaving women and children To fan the dying embers Of a dying religion. But my melancholy remains; These rebellions youths Are neither in our shrines Nor in the cathedral
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Posted: Nov 2009
About this poem:
Africa was at peace and tranquility before the White man came. Chinue Achebe's THINGS FALL APART and NO LONGER AT EASE are clear testimonies to this fact. But the Europeans came with the Bible and build Cathedrals. Our people abandoned their sacred traditions and the pristine paradimns of peace and harmony. But today, everything is in disarray.