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Excuse me father if I'm disappointed for what you expect me

Excuse me father



If you cannot slaughter other tribesmen not to say prayers in the morning if I turn my backon Some of your advice




Because the father

Although your blood runs in my veins, although Bedouin have too though I've slept under huts vacated



Looking forward to the Moon

And lifting my hand to God



Envy has been

Time has many strange leaves unfolded



And spread them between us and

I have uprooted time



Time has planted me to garden



So don't use prayer,




And sorry to dig the bones out (bones buried here)



Oops

If you have forgotten that you are buried here.



In: poems of black Africa. edited by Wole Soyinka. Oxford, 1989, pp.335-336.