A Race With Time.

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rosalind

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Why are you doubtful

Still searching for answers

What? more convictions

The wisdom of the ages

The wonders of the ancient world

The Khufu, Cheops, Sphinx and Giza

Great Egyptian Pyramids

Why have your memory gone so soon

During the Nativity, the new advent

Three wise men emerged from the east

Bearing precious gifts

I pose these questions

Give me profound answers

Where was industrialization

When was the target time

The birth of modern inventions

Have you now remembered

Can you now hear

The clinking noise of chains

The chains of slavery

The blood of the slave

In the hands of the slave merchant

The birth of a new world order

Did i hear you say reparation

Who can pay the price of blood

Mortal man to produce blood?

Give also the breath of life?

Stop, stop, and think

In the silence

The clock is ticking fast

You have already seen

The golden age of knowledge

The knowledge of the past

The knowledge of the present

Finally Finally Finally

Shouted the Spirit

The knowledge of the future.

Author's Notes/Comments:

The purpose of writing this poem is to create awareness on how time changes all things in this planet. A lot of events have taken place,yet man does not seem to understand that the only thing permanent in this terrestrial planet is the changing times. I like the poem because it highlighted the roles of the oppressor and the oppressed without obliterating their relevance in human history. It is like a mirror that keeps one thinking after looking in it. The poem was written on the 4th of Sep.tem.ber 2008. It will be read for the first time on the 7th of this month before an audience in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.