EULOGY TO OBAMA

All praise to the son of an African
On the pedestals of history: Yes, we can!
Stand; on the mountaintop a crown of oath
Granted, in the honourable house of myth
Lincoln foretold the allegory in hazy height
The black man will rise in darkness to light
The human-torch passed in a dim recession
A charismatic voice to a global progression
In the red and white stripes with stars; no flaws
Let’s praise the great leader in heaven’s laws
Which, will canvas the man’s moral definition
Heroics of his heart penned in Negro’s liberation
The cowardice ways; erased from the bush piece
The land of dry turbans; shall at times see peace
The global eyes gaggling in novels of genial order
In the universal aspirations, you bare no dire border
The age of the conqueror, risen like a fogged dawn
In the shadows of matriarchal and patriarchal yawn
To pour in the grounds of hope with reverence
In the boardrooms of sage political intelligence
The ghost of King, Jr; dining with old nemesis
In the table of brotherhood soul food like anises
The children of the world shall dance with Barack
As strong as the words Malcolm stated to barrack
Mandela’s cry; Never, never and never again
All humankind will rise in the world to gain
All praise to the son of an African emigrant
On the pedestals of history, yes we grant
His name rhymes with the holy man Osama
All Hail to President Barack Hussein Obama!

By Linda Sakazi Thwala