Earth
But the earth will get you all
in the end;
just look around and see
Where is Atlantis?
Where is ancient Greece
Where is Nebuchadnazzer
the one who made men to quiver.
Ask the souls sulking
in the sombre shadows, weeping;
all those who made desolate
their own times with hate.
They also will tell you sey
indeed the Earth gets everyone at last.
Others before you have come and gone
In their tombs lie their bones;
Cities more glamorous than your plasti-Cities
have raged and are now silent.
Deeper knowledge beyond your modern Universities
also existed thrived and passed.
Have you not scratched the Earth?
Did she cry out in pains?
O foolish generations
science and technology will pass away
fad and fashion must wither away
but love and justice shall remain always
the Earth also shall remain alive
and give live until tomorrow…
While your ruined cities
and fossilized bones
will stand testimonial
against those who run riot
with depravity.
Your future….surely
Voodoo Priest
Whereas I agree that mankind has messed up the pristine beauty & balance of Mother Earth, we Africans need to be careful not to be seen to be condemning science & technology whole sale.It cripples our youth by encouraging them to get the false notion that “hard sciences”is for the european & asian man.
After all Africans are the first scientists on the planet.
See the engineering feat of the Pyramids. The calendar that is still in use albeit now with greco-roman gab, numerous medicines & medical procedures (it should be Imhoteps Oath-not Hippocrates a mere pupil of Africans centuries after the former; an African Genius) from ancient times to present.
Our knowledge is always under scrutiny and danger of theft without due credit.
Science and its application in Technology can be applied in a manner that is Spiritual-does not destroy the eco-balance-is not rapacious.Our ancestors were not stupid when they treated everything on the planet as spiritual (and hence accorded due respect) plane!
Voodoo!
This spiritual outlook of material manifest is African Philosophy at its best.
Thus nuclear weapons for example would be unthinkable. over-Logging of forests-lungs of Africa in the Congo for eg or the Amazon in Brazil just to achieve vanity would not occur.
Human Beings would make things and provide services that ensure participation/connection to each other as human beings.
This is Ancient African Philosophy that can be applied in a modern sense to create a new (ancient) world of trust and respect.
Apart from food clothing and shelter, a spiritual being -the Black Man needs to “be connected spiritually” to his/her fellow human being.Period.
We were taught to laugh at this system of thinking by a people who lack spirituality. Painfully. Everybody knows-or should, how much depression is prevalent in the “materially loaded” western civilization.
People over eating to kill boredom! Massive sale of anti-depressants….”sad & soft,”as Bob sang.
Misuse of philosophy in science produces alienating, dangerous, hopeless vanity and life-degrading technologies.
We Africans MUST EMBRACE SCIENCE to build Africa with a spiritual and material balance. We are dual thinkers culturally. The european never understood this and has gone ahead and created many useless, depressing wonders.
Peace