THANKSGIVING
How do creatures
Give thanks to their Creator?
How can beneficiaries
Thank their benefactors?
For we have your thanks
Streaming in our hands
Your honour brimming
In our hearts with thanks
Too low voices we have
To blow glories you deserve
We commission a cock
Not an ordinary cock
But a divine cock
A cock that can glow
Crow and blow
Our thanks to you
At dawn tomorrow
Before the cock's crow
Receive our story
Our thanks with glory!
Mawutodzi Kodzo Abissath
(Black Ideas)
NB: This poem was composed in 1988.
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