Can still smile in poverty Without a root - no property, no hand to rest the head voices better dead With uncomfortable boxes to tick Serving the slave with a stick No one understands our plight Rather, we are robbed of our rights
How primitive and uncivilized I am In the gathering of my black fellows in my traditional attire, my brothers no longer speak the mother tongue because they understand foreign lingua. the surgeon help clear their tribal marks and their clean bodies are used as artistry billboards - for tattoos now they look beautiful. these babies of pornography, for Them polygamy is uncivilized but normal when men marry men for wives and women marry women for husbands.
When came first faced with fierce running mothers errand I thought I was too young and innocence For the earth to devour I thought it will ignore me Or rather make no salivation of me But his mustard of mercy, For its eyes where dead, And I had already fallen-in No other way to go out. Its eyes start-stared me And me, for the fear of loosing mother’s money I had to, so I started to run. But his two steps where faster than the hundred I had taken He toasted me to the earth as though I have committed a crime. I thought he wanted the money I fisted, Which I gave it up. But he knifed my peels from my skin With his iron hands, As his unsheathed paws Run down my flesh – on my secreted too. my lips adhered to his palm abide like glue. Though I cried, but only tried. his gear, my tear – torn into pools pool of blood all over his rags and mine It was him and I, His brethren in act The earth and the sun, the stars All witnessed.
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