100 Days of Poetry Challenge: Day 34 - The Dignity of Labour

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The dignity of labour

Whatever your ambition,
One thing is sure:
Whether free born or slave,
As an African child
You are a father's child,
Closely tied to the soil
To till and eat to fill

Why then are your hands limp,
Your shoulders high,
And your back stiff?
Then you moan as hunger grips,
Lazy farmer's child

Put a cassava in soil,
With little or no till;
And soon you'll have tubers to boil.
Sprinkle to the land, grains of corn,
And out come fat ears,
Lofty and erect in the air.
Nature is kind and weather mild.
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Your faith in the dignity of labour
Can make a difference
Between dependence and self sufficiency;
Between famine and life's abundance.
For a nation without a farming culture
Is indeed a nation without a structure.

#Note:
It's day 34 of the 100 Days of Poetry Challenge organised by @d-pend. Today's poetry is centered on farming and the nonchalant attitude of new generation of Africans towards farming which was the major source of income on the olden days.
Nowadays, that's soo much famine in the African continent.. a continent of rich soil and resources. It's high time we go back to farming!!!

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