Our hearts desire peace,
Our yearning for unity,
Our thirst for change,
Yet answers elude us, cease.
We cannot rejoice,
While the black bull still holds sway,
Our voices united, we raise,
For justice and a brighter day.
My son, lost in that demonstration,
Taken from me, my precious one,
His voice silenced, a tragic summation,
By brutal murders, his life undone.
Listen to my plea,
My only brother, too, now gone,
To lands of the dead, forced to flee,
By inhumane officers who were so wrong.
They obeyed His Excellency's orders,
To quell innocent voices, they sought,
Eliminating those who dared be supporters,
Of their rights, they were brutally caught.
The cost of living, like evening winds, rose,
Leaving us struggling, our pain exposed.
My fellow mourners, hear my cry,
My only daughter, just a teenager,
Taken from me, no chance to say goodbye,
Her future stolen, her life a wager.
Only five years old, so tender,
She sang for peace, a hopeful render,
Yet they shot her brutally, no defender,
Leaving her mother's heart torn asunder.
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Author:
Benard Oluoch (Pseudonym) (
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- Comment from author about the poem: So sad losing citizens because of poor governance, political indifferences,high cost of living. The protestants brutally killed by the guys in blue who receive order from 'Him'
- Category: Sociopolitical
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Comments1
all we can do
is mourn, pray, learn
and hope
and, hope
since our anger and striving for justice
only lead to more suffering
and funerals for the innocent..
thanks for sharing, brother
keep writing, keep voicing
your pain
but do not seek an eye for an eye
let your very breath, become your fight
your every memory of those
you've lost, define your bravery
for you see
once we're no longer
part of the living, all those
we remember and keep alive
in our memory's, die
their second death
so above all else, we must
first and always
cherish, life!
So encouraging. I love the diction
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