Bleeding Red: Cameroon in Black and White

Heritage

8 HERITAGE When she was born with hopes people revelled And trusted her to a nurse from the Sahel This nurse his luck for years tried, two and twenty At the end his vision he lost twenty/twenty Sung was liberty To infinity When November came to Cameroon in 1982 She was a young woman only twenty-two Fresh and rich with buxom youthfulness Scaring away thoughts of the dryness November could bring to milking her dry At forty-eight none would recognise her In the prime of motherhood This her childless widowhood A thorny heritage from the groom 1982 had stuffed with gloom For this beauty whose beauty Does underlie jealousy. ...