Written piece
Evolution
Ikoro Iyineleda
Nigeria
About this piece
A poem predicting the rise of the down-trodden from the dregs wherein they're bound by oppressive authorities, to become as a consequence greater even than these unjust powers.
One day, some day;
down-trodden grass,
bowing to boughs on high
- great boughs, grey boughs,
leaf-bereft boughs;
hiding Heaven's bright eye -
one day, green grass
will yet evolve
from being below such boughs;
develop wings
and become beings
towering over their powers.