AFRICAN SPRING(S)

Splinters of an African Spring

dominoes of freedom
dominoes that spread love

#BenAliIsFallen

echoes of malice
tom toms of delayed tomorrows
rend the air

#MubarakIsFallen

we heard your echoes
in the "Occupy Movements"
of a morally indefensible Europe
Obamaland too was pollinated 

All lives matter they said
#BlackLivesMatter we say

#BouteflikaIsFallen

fertilized agitations
fuel a desperate search 

for new humanity

#BashirIsFallen

Tunisia rises yet again
the limits of revolutions without revolutionaries

aborted dreams or dreams deferred?

Cairo? Tunis? Khartoum?

did we thinking about the post-revolutionary moment?

© July 2019