UNSPOKEN
Rose Nmai@rosenmai034430
1 month ago
Battles fought without hope,
Treasures unkept,
Times wasted, unaccounted for.
Oh! Who will correct?
A corrosive, corrupt era,
Strangling the horridly honest,
The disposed corpse of truth,
A world led by the serpent’s tongue.
Oh! Who will justify?
Religion fashionably structured,
A desecration unheard of.
Days of sweet lies,
Once pure, now nearly extinct.
Oh! Who will cleanse?
For our valuable culture,
Now overpriced and unreachable,
Sandwiched between dynamics and evolution.
But is it worth it at all?
For the poor’s blood feeds the rich man’s feast,
In a world where success wears a gendered mask,
Where skin’s hue tilts scales unjustly.
Oh! Who will rise and speak?
I wish the Reaper took me,
For in this place, I belong not.
Unless I take the coward’s way,
End my life but rot in hell.
Does that make me weak?
Because a life thought lived is unlived,
For these times are deadly illusions,
And the truths remain unsaid.
Who will go and speak?
Stab the bad and heal the right.
So many promises to do so,
But change is yet to be seen.
Oh!
Who will correct?
Who will justify?
Who will cleanse?
Who will rise and speak?
Will it be worth it at all?
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