The World Is So Dim By Rev. Igwe Jared 09/03/2026.
Jared Chimezie@jaredchimezie
1 day ago
The world is so dim,
Many nations too grim.
People falling to diseases,
Bodies lost to bandits’ guns.
Our leaders stand deadly mute
Their silence harsher than drought.
Pain rises without cure,
Hope fades like a dream at dawn.
Children shrink on cracked earth,
While cameras chase their shine.
The hungry press their ribs to sleep,
And no one hears them scream.
Mothers carry their sons home
On roads no map remembers.
Daughters vanish in silent vans
While courtrooms rehearse their lies.
The judge is blind,
The gavel is bought,
And justice hangs in shame.
Hospitals with empty shelves.
Prayers with nowhere left to land.
A doctor bends over a dying child
With nothing in his hands
The medicine sailed
To richer shores.
Wars bloom like cancers
In the throats of ancient towns.
Refugees walk on broken feet
While the world debates their clothes.
Headlines flash.
The world scrolls on.
And somewhere, someone drowns.
The farmer plants in thirsty soil
Where rain has long betrayed him.
The fisherman lifts an empty net
From waters sick with ruin.
Children learn beneath broken roofs,
Quietly afraid.
And the leaders
Oh, the leaders
Still banqueting,
Still swollen with power,
Still making speeches carved from air,
Decorating their palaces
With borrowed words
While the world burns flat.
The world is so dim.
Not dim like evening
Dim like a throat filled with ash.
Dim like a mother’s eyes
The morning after the crash.
Dim like the silence after a bomb
The kind that never leaves.
We are not waiting for dawn.
We are already inside
The long night,
Learning the weight of a darkness
Too heavy for light,
Carrying the names of the fallen
Like stones
Pressed to the heart.
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