Privileged Voices

Oluwagbenga Abiola
@oluwagbengaabiola322369
1 month ago

Privileged Voices

They call us lazy.
How easy it must be
to point fingers with hands
that have never touched struggle.

They sit on cushions inherited from ancestors,
then mock those who sleep on beds built from stress.
A man born in sunlight
rarely understands the language of shadows.

They call us lazy
while standing on platforms their fathers built,
raised by opportunities that we were never even allowed to smell.
They confuse their starting point
with our destination
and pretend it's all “hard work.”

They walk through doors that were opened for them
long before they learned how to walk,
then laugh at us for still knocking
as if our knuckles aren’t bleeding from years of trying.

They think struggle is a myth
because they never met it.
They think poverty is a choice
because wealth was their inheritance.
They call effort “excuses”
because they have never had to fight for survival.

They call us lazy
not because we do little,
but because they have never done enough
to understand what doing much feels like.

They can’t comprehend waking up tired
because life has been punching you
long before morning came.
They don’t understand carrying burdens
that they only know from documentaries and headlines.
Yet from their balconies of comfort
they analyze our hustles
as if they are experts in a struggle
they have never tasted.

But God sees.
He sees the sweat hidden behind closed doors,
the prayers cried into pillows,
the strength that grows in silence,
the battles fought with empty pockets
and full hearts.

So let the privileged speak
ignorance is cheaper than empathy.
Let them call us lazy;
their words are weightless.

The soil knows who tills it.
The night knows who wrestles through it.
The sun knows who bears its heat.
And heaven knows the difference
between a man who refuses to work
and a warrior who works without reward.

Call us lazy
if it helps you sleep on your soft pillows.
But the earth remembers labour,
and God remembers truth.

Written by @oluwagbengaabiola322369

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