Calabar River by Dennis Brutus

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Calabar River  

Roll on, full waters, roll,  

Full volume, silvery as fish scales.  

These are anguished records here,  

Bright images flare from dark alcoves:  

So much pain, grimly recorded,  

So much more pain awaiting record.  

A President of the Immortals would have sport aplenty  

With our continent's bogusry:  

Still full, silver Calabar flows.  

Dennis Brutus  

Calabar River