MEGA POET
Issue no: 01
our tongues tied by words we never said
Eyes are lonely skies, dark clouds limit our vision
tell the sun to shine through these shut eyes and dry the tears we never cried
because tears never cried cannot dry
Free dumbs remain crumbs in freedom.
we are dying.......
They rock big chains,
we are dying beings breathing life into the nostrils of death
call it swag.
just because they can’t detect the fingerprints of the hands of time on us
I see modern day slaves chained to the western culture.
Now they tell us that we die from natural death
I will need more than Moses’ stick to lead them from mental
Hold on African child
slavery.
the sun never sets, it’s just the earth that keeps spinning on it’s axis
Like I was captured by the eyes of the dying world I’m the
we
are not foreign to pain
world’s last vision.
we fore-reign in the rain
when the rain bows
On the psycho-path;
our naked eyes will wear the coat of many colours.
writing history on the walls they built to cage us;
Free Dumbs
walking through the valley of shadows of death holding
hands with time;
may the blowing winds sweep away the footprints
death follows them
Like the moon, I brave the night
to shed light to newborns
I know they will shed my blood and crown
me with thorns because they are scared of the truth.
They even reduced the Volume when Tumi spoke of Yvonne
White people....how could they love Mama Africa’s womb
yet hate her children??
It does not make sense right!
They gave us identity books as if we never had identity in
the first place
Because true identity comes from within
I have seen so much pain with my naked eyes
from street kids window shopping food to brothers getting
born again in the blood of another brother behind prison
walls
‘live’ bullets losing their lives in human bodies
cops trying to erase governments’s mistakes with rubber
bullets
screams of a rape victim shook me awake from this ghetto
dream
for a split second, I heard Sarafina screaming, singing....
“freedom is coming tomorrow” but last night, my people
cried their eyes out in the ghettos
They never lived to see tomorrow
How do they expect us to be stars when they don’t give us
space
look I tried to follow Christ but I lost his footprints when he
walked on water
Will God understand?
We are even scared to pray
we say silent prayers
because the devil eavesdrop
but the silence kills us
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