Bro,

The poem is a reflection of passed days Banjul. It also surfaces the 
differences between to be a child in those days Banjul with being a child in 
present day Banjul. A good one. Thanks for sharing it us.

Pa Che



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>Subject: Banjul Epitaphs (A Poem)
>Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 14:43:44 -0700
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>   Banjul Epitaphs
>             Where were you
>When we folded our dreams
>Into kites and let them fly
>Over the azure skies
>Of Banjul,
>
>                 Or when we made tiny boats
>Out of our homework
>And let them sail on Grant   Street
>Towards the saline mangroves
>Behind ‘Af Die, the graveyard
>The graveyard of slave ships
>And of English greed?
>
>                     And that night
>On Fitzgerald
>When Ifangbondi etched Saraba
>Into our young hearts
>As we searched
>For the distant lands
>Of folktale heroes
>And smoked our first piccadillys
>Like virgins.
>
>               Where were you
>When the pakin chased us
>Down Pignaaye and Rankin
>We who could not see
>Our fears, yet tripped
>Over our laughter?
>
>               And while the lions
>Prowled the deserted arenas
>We fought and queued
>To see Hemamalini,
>The Indian goddess
>That stole our lunch
>And dashed our hopes.
>                     Where you there
>That Friday noon
>When they came in crowds
>Behind our backs
>And broke down
>The walls of Boxbar
>As the police watched
>And even threw our ball
>Into the gutter,
>                     Or when scribes and poets
>Came to write epitaphs
>For our fallen children
>Who only flew kites
>Over the skies
>Of this city
>Laying flat like a tongue
>In the mouth of The Gambia?
>
>   by Momodou Baldeh.©
>
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