WHO BUYS MY THOUGHTS
Who buys my thoughts
Buys not a cup of honey
That sweetens every taste;
He buys the throb,
Of Young Africa’s soul,
The soul of teeming millions,
Hungry, naked, sick,
Yearning, pleading, waiting.

Who buys my thoughts
Buys not false pretence
Of oracles and tin gods;
He buys the thoughts
Projected by the mass
Of restless youths who are born
Into deep and clashing cultures,
Sorting, questioning, watching.

Who buys my thoughts
Buys the spirit of the age,
The unquenching fire that smoulders
And smoulders
In every living heart
That’s true and noble or suffering;
It burns all o’er the earth,
Destroying, chastening, cleansing.


AUTHOR: Dennis Chukude Osadebay, born Thursday 29 June 1911 in Asaba of present-day Delta State in Nigeria, West Africa.


SOURCE
https://naijaphilia.com/blog/2023/10/09/naija-poetry-63-who-buys-my-thoughts/

Dennis Chukude Osadebay (29 June 1911 to 26 Dec 1994) was a Nigerian politician, poet, journalist and former premier of the now defunct Mid-Western Region of Nigeria, which now comprises Edo and Delta State.

He was one of the pioneering Nigerian poets who wrote in English. As a politician, he detested party politics and tried to form unbiased opinions on important matters of the period. He was also a leader of the movement to create a Mid-Western region during the Nigerian First Republic.



SOURCE
https://naijaphilia.com/blog/2023/10/09/naija-poetry-63-who-buys-my-thoughts/