As I read through Anyi Obi's highly inspiring post, which buttressed the fact that 'if it's ever going to be, its only up to you'...this unpublished poem recently obtained from Kwame Nkrumah Files: Howard University, pooped up my mind...
YOU
There is a special task to do
That no one can achieve but YOU.
There is a wondrous prayer to pray
That no one save YOU can ever say.
A path of promise shines ahead
No other Soul may ever thread;
A door into Eternity
To which YOU hold the only key.
God gives his works to countless MEN
To render back to HIM again.
But no one can weave YOUR pattern through
Because - He only made one YOU.
YOU was written by a promising young Nigerian in the early 70s, late Comrade Khalil C. Ononye, (1949-1978) a Pan - Africanist, and member of the Afro - Asian Movements.
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