Splendor amidst dangers I never knew

Below you will find a masterpiece by one of the members of Afica Live Dream, Ms. Sarah Wakasa. She also doubles up as our main graphic designer in all aspects of designs. She is also a gifted poet with a passion for our motherland and the piece below can tell this clearly. Sarah says that this is her expression of the Africa Live Dream project.
Follow it carefully as raw as it is.
Oliver M. - Editor
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I never knew that I was no innocent
Never knew what a predicament
Never knew that I lived in misery
Never knew the troubles and maladies enveloping me
Never knew….

For if I’d known earlier would have lived in guilt
In plight of this predicament of a tugging over me
Diseases and poverty
If I had known that I lacked
The way they want it to be
I would have searched
If I had known better
But I never knew…

Until they made me realize
Gradually I came to apprehend
That it’s no wonder that they mesmerize at the sight of me
An African girl who could afford a smile amidst whirls of storms
The African was not meant to afford a smile… never knew…

That what lay around me was scandal
But I never knew how bad they wanted it to seem
Did they glory in the misery amidst?
Well some never cared to even care less

Never knew until they said we are diseased
Never knew until exotic helpers were fascinated
All so pitiful, drowned in tears
Taking photos in disbelief of this African melancholy
Never knew the sight of us was that sympathetic

Now that it was made it known to me
That what good could come out me
I had to confirmed a true reflection of me
What I saw true grandeur that the world just had to glimpse
An I saw they black light it me
Sparkling with unmistakable rays
Never knew how striking an image of me
Would be… me?
Never imagined.

It was not made it known
Never on the head lines that I am
Never knew the greatest inside of me
The wondrous of creation
An image of Him…

That is Africa for me splendor amidst dangers. But I never knew.

Wakasa Sarah,
Graphics Director,
Africa Live the Dream.