Wake Me When I'm Free

[Babatunde Olatunji]

Please.. wake me when I am free

I cannot bear captivity

Where my country, I am told, "Hold no significance"

I withered and died in ignorance

but my inner eye can see, a race,

who reigned as kings in another place

The green trees were rich and full

and every man spoke of beautiful men and women together as people

War was gone because all was at peace

but now like a nightmare, I woke to see

that I live like a prisoner of poverty..

Please.. wake me when I am free

I cannot bear captivity

For, I would rather be stricken blind

than to live without expression of mind

{*Babatunde Olatunji begins to speak in another language*}