We opened our eyes To the dawn's crows And the dusk's howl. We opened our eyes And stared with tears At Mama fears and all her dead. What tears this be, she asks? What stirred these fears, she asks?
we opened our dead eyes to the future of our dead children. our skins are lines of sorrow, designed with tears from our ancestors. we're made enemies of protagonists, so they created our world with darkness & painted our skin with sadness.
what else shall we give to this world, if not bowl of tears that watered our children's graveyard? what song shall we sing as reminder, if not songs of goodbyes that became sun to our night of hopelessness? what story shall we tell a world without offsprings, if not stories of a world without future - a world without glory, a world without vision?
This was Mama's cry How her offsprings said bye To this world Her world Leaving a blur And tears...
Adigun Temitope Idealism popolarly known as DATI is a creative writer, poet, event planner, talents manager, freelance journalist, street photographer and the founder of BLACK PRIDE Magazine. He is the author of "Lines on the Seat (LOTS)," a collection of political poems.
He has a B. A in Mass Communication from University of Nigeria, Nsukka.
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