GUILELESS YEARS

Before your captor's arrival, you were untouched by the evils outside Being at peace with your nature without fumes and smokes chanting along as the drummers increased their pace around a fire connecting spiritually, echoing your voices without doubt a bowl of hot steaming Akidi unites the brotherhood ate with your brothers without a questioning look drank from the clay pot of Nkwere hills oh guileless years where went thee ? mud, wood and thatch yet peace in your slumber not bothered with mortgage payment oh guileless years where went thee ? chaste and real where you with us sunset at its time no shift in nature your festivals cannot be left out oh guileless years where went thee ? where you exploited? are you now a history recorded to be read? you cannot speak your language without a blend of imported tongue oh guileless years where went thee ? nature numbered and against you sleeping awake in a bungalow oh guileless years where went thee ?