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51 THE PROMISE The sun rises in Bertoua with promises And majestic strides to sweep away losses Little knowing in Mvog Meka it will fall prey To pitch darkness long in wait to make sun pay For such generosity embracing poor and rich When for the latter sun’s V. D. is for the rich Hostage the sun shall never see Mungo’s West The whole world knows darkness do in the West nests But pitch darkness taking sun hostage in the centre Stretches hair strands and makes heart bitter; The king of darkness in his palace With such bright smile on his face Smirking like a ghoul happy misery’s claws In the nation and in the books of laws The promises the sun made must die Mvog Meka darkness thinks it a lie But unchain, we must unchain innocence Taken hostage by this king: mad and incensed Married to drunken spree and delirium Which have taken up all in his cranium But not our dreams of bright sunshine We’ll fish out of darkness with a line. 52 ...

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