{"id":1074,"date":"2014-03-06T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/povojournal\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2014-03-06T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-06T15:28:00","slug":"god-bless-our-men-a-prayer-for-afrikas-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/povo.africa\/journal\/god-bless-our-men-a-prayer-for-afrikas-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"God Bless Our Men a prayer for Afrika\u2019s Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Let God grant us freedom from pecuniary chains<br>Lest our children thirst though this land is fat<br>Let God shine her generosity and help us lift ourselves from the rubble of oppression<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God Bless our men, their works, their aspirations<br>Let her be kind to their pockets<br>Let the devices of their enemies break at the spine and never materialise<br>Let our children\u2019s fathers taste of the land what it gives<br>The sweet of its waters and the wholesome of its foliage<br>God bless our men<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God redeem our progenies through their fathers<br>And in turn, God bless us their mothers&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>May God tighten our men\u2019s resolve to truly sire<br>Never letting them mislay their virility<br>Lest they turn their ways astray<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God, please bless our men, our fathers, our brothers and our sons<br>Give to them the light to their power<br>Heal their hurt so they may construct and not destroy<br>Mend them, God so they may acknowledge the kings in them<br>And that way, too the queens in us<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God sanctify our beautiful men<br>Grant them resilience so they may uplift<br>Free them from the bonds of fear and its paralysis<br>Its hateful grip and the scars it leaves<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God bless our men<br>Their mothers, their women, their children<br>God bless Afrika<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let God grant us freedom from pecuniary chainsLest our children thirst though this land is fatLet God shine her generosity and help us lift ourselves from the rubble of oppression God Bless our men, their works, their aspirationsLet her be kind to their pocketsLet the devices of their enemies break at the spine and never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-poetry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.1 - 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