{"id":52,"date":"2021-04-19T14:10:58","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.authors.buprojects.uk\/adeyinkaidowu-agbaje\/?page_id=52"},"modified":"2021-04-19T14:36:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T14:36:51","slug":"a-note-to-mother-africa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.authors.buprojects.uk\/adeyinkaidowu-agbaje\/a-note-to-mother-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"My motherland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We call you mama, but never acknowledge your presence<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We call you mama, but allow others to rub on us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We allow the Smiths to take us away from you<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For desire of greater prospect.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We neglect, your tender care<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your strap on our back along the stream<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Your songs while plucking the palm frond<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The moonlight stories around grandpa\u2019s garden.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Now the nostalgia of our sweet home envelope us<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We want to run to the stream<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Feed us with the freshness of your milk<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">We are ready to listen to your folktales again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Let the glow of your brightness radiate around us<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">That we may accord respect from the Smiths<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Please mama, let\u2019s travel back to those days<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To roll in the freshness of your aura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We call you mama, but never acknowledge your presence We call you mama, but allow others to rub on us We allow the Smiths to take us away from you For desire of greater prospect. &nbsp; We neglect, your tender care Your strap on our back along the stream Your &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - 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