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Twists In Reality By Jacobs Adewale by JacobsAdewale: 12:23pm On Jul 26, 2012 |
No one seems to be tired of dancing To the one strange unfamiliar tune of oppression and gluttony. The wealthy sought life with their wealth; The poor and the tired heaped out of the way Forsaking their dreams for derision and deprivation. In the pupils of tomorrow’s teens, A colourless rainbow dwells Signifying promises of death and calamity. Our systems continue to deteriorate Making tomorrow a clueless puzzle And today a ridiculous riddle. The wicked thrives and plunders, Drinking the wine of violence, As the needy suffer with their strengths squandered in misery. Music albums litter the streets To be rendered in funerals’ services of songs. Fathers and mothers are robbed of tears One by one, their children drown in their fears. The famine, the drought Lingers on the road Supporting the tortured remnants of the flesh That spirits crave bitterly for liberation and levitation. Those with hope so little Walk in their shadows with poverty at heart; Seeking havens to escape being belittled. Endemically, rape escalates in velocity and gravity Polluting innocent ovaries of lasses To spawn embryos of chaos and disaster. The belt of morality is worn out With youths going madly naked In the name of fashion and modernization. Even adults cover their faces in shame To have spared the rod and … Homes knowing not what it means to dress glamorously Find delight wearing their dignified rags in secret To avert disgrace and abasement Thus, adhering to the cliché: ‘Cut your coat as it best fits you’. Gravid clouds weep in anger Resulting to the tornadoes and cyclones we already know With humanity trailing the path of darkness and doom; Making mortality rate all we have to calculate. In the slums we all tend to ignore, People live as though they deserve no life; Some caresses their beds and pillows at dusk, Wishing to never wake into this reality of acrimony and pain. The broken bones can never be made whole! The talented corpses can never possess a goal! The weak, the strong Languishes in the morgue Caused by the God-awful quake of yesterday And like the gypsies of the West, Never to return to the land of the living. Our old retire to stupor With thoughts flowing down memory lane; Singing long forgotten melodies To avoid sleeping and never to wake. Our dead who have always refused to die Sniffles dust and disgust With scent of roses laid in their memory Eroded by the virulent odour of our guilty spittle. The smiling full moon now frowns As twilight flags caution calls To whoever has eyes and can see That evil lies at every nook and cranny Waiting for whom to detain and devour. Militia trained to guard lives and property Are now pugnacious puppets to political kingpins, Fermenting the embers of injustice and ill-justice To scare the living day light out of our fragile veins. All is wearied and worried Knowing not the profitability of evolution; Mankind thrives unkindly in odium Only for our hope to be kindled by faith and beliefs In seeing the dawn of a different tomorrow With a wiser and prudent you and I in it. Our God, our creator, To you we kneel in homage Announcing the lurking bitterness in our hearts That these twists in reality Become a blessing in disguise for all of humanity. |
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