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"Poem About Oguta Ameshi by Oriuwa Ossai"

A beauty reclines by waters of sapphire
beneath skies of azure
She calls out a moody tune filled with melancholic nostalgia
She whispers encouragingly to Ogbuide as she tends to Orashi her love
scowling menacingly at Osimiri as she inches near

She fills Amorocha with siver bellies to quell the famished groans of Idu and Nwapa
Rivers of black gold from her flow unending
Like a she-goat in her season she is fertile
Yielding Iji'n'ofigbo for Akuanyanugbo and Ochije
Mother of priests and theives
Parent of queens and prostitutes
Her offspring abound
A singer here, there a doctor
Lawyers and builders, pagans and pranksters
Yet with equal love she beholds them
She extols her sons in song
and of her daughters she speaks of their virtue with pride
To the beat of the Uko, she calls out her erring children
The belle of the counties she is
Like a mother hen she sent Uhamiri to repel our enemies as they thronged to desecrete the land so long ago
Today, tales of her immense wealth and wisdom still echo through the lands
Do you not hear her call in her lonliness and despair?
Her voice hoarse from silent yells
Her back breaking 'neath the weight she daily bears
She calls out to umu Ugwuta Ameshi Obodo Ukwu n'eri Eze
My children die daily, she wails, for no one tends to their ills
my young men have deserted me for younger beauties
She asks to be remembered
She pleads to be loved again
Return she begs, to your first love
Maka n'Ameshi amaka.
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