‘The seas eats our lands’ by Kwesi Brew
Here stood our ancestral home:
The crumbling wall marks the spot.
Here a sheep was led to the slaughter
To appease the gods and atone
For faults which our destiny
Has blossomed into crimes
There my cursed father once stood
And shouted to us,his children,
To come back from our play
To our evening meal and sleep
The clouds were thickening in the red sky
And night had charmed
A black power into the pounding waves.
Here once lay Keta
Now her golden girls
Erode into the arms
of strange towns.
In this poem,
- the gods are being abused for their causing a natural disaster
- the poet's father is being' cursed' for stopping the children's play
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a natural disaster is linked to the moral and religious life if a people
- the'golden girls' are praised for leaving home to go to the city
- nature is seen as an enemy