Gabriel Edzordzi Agbozo

let's fire the guns
and give a twenty-one-gun salute
in celebration of the heroes:

the resilient; when flames engulfed
the oceans of conscience,
who survived
the hyena's banquets.

they are the heroes: born to fight the lion,
hate the chipolopolos, overtake the squirrels,
grow fatter than the elephants
and decipher the voice of sunlight
upon the pyramids of sands in the sun.

let's fire the guns
and give a twenty-one-gun salute
in celebration of the gallantry
of the shining stars
let's bring on the masquerades
and light the bonfire of hope
at the center of the earth...

Gabriel Edzordzi Agbozo
Legon, 1 Feb, 2010