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Who Buys My Thoughts
Who buys my thoughts
Buys not a cup of honey
That sweetens every taste;
He buys the throb,
Of Young Africa’s soul,
The soul of teeming millions,
Hungry, naked, sick,
Yearning, pleading, waiting.
Who buys my thoughts
Buys not false pretence
Of oracles and tin gods;
He buys the thoughts
Projected by the mass
Of restless youths who are born
Into deep and clashing cultures,
Sorting, questioning, watching.
Who buys my thoughts
Buys the spirit of the age,
The unquenching fire that smoulders
And smoulders in every living heart
That’s true and noble or suffering;
It burns all o’er the earth,
Destroying, chastening, cleansing.
— Dennis Chukude Osadebay
“Who Buys My Thoughts” is a twenty-three-line poem written by Dennis Osadebay. The poem is structured into three stanzas.
Reference
Team, LP. (2025). Poem: “Who Buys My Thoughts” by Dennis Osadebay. Literature PADI. https://www.literaturepadi.com.ng/2025/05/17/poem-who-buys-my-thoughts-by-dennis-osadebay/ (Accessed on September 15, 2025 at 00:47)
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