Cudjoe
How you waited for the day
where you could see the sun rising across the Bight of Benin
oh Cudjoe the fear and dread
of the fateful day, where the women of Dahomey captured and sole you
wrenching you from your sourc
remained a torment till your death.
Oh Cudjoe, your life was spent in limbo
in a place you did not understand
in life, you did not wish to have
everything was in expectation of going home.
You wore the clothes that were not yours
you bore a name that was not yours
Cudoe, in death, you were reunited
and your mother would call you olu...and you would run with your three brothers and two sisters to feel your mother's warmth.
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