(Picture source: https://www.rappler.com/world/africa/united-nations-says-millions-facing-severe-hunger-horn-africa/) Like iya-Basira's sweet jollof rice sold at the junction, in a meal of hunger votes are bought, for piecemeals while peace mills away from reality under flesh covers of waring stomachs. Enslaved by hunger - a political weapon to buy the masses a eucharist not of unleavened bread salvaging tomorrow but a today's bittersweet wine with unsatisfactory digest! The quest for power awakens cruel buyers - hard to blame, for they understand the hunger game... ...a /thumbs-up/ local exchange for a coin, or perhaps two: for the belly too! (Picture source: https://unu.edu/publications/articles/taking-hunger-out-of-equation.html) "I'll take my chances and eat what I see now" you dare proclaim... ...in an Alleluia chorus you exalt "...give us this day our daily bread" for tomorrow shall fend. Amen! ••• ••• ••• Oh then my song to...
Oh, lift me; Lift me, As a wave, ...delightfully dances to celebrate the ocean's roar. Lift me, As a dry weightless leaf, As a single weightless quill, ...warmly embraces the atmosphere's 20.9% oxygen, displayed by its obedient followership. Lift me, With ease, ...as icey crystals aesthetically display the silver linings of the beautiful cloudy sky. Lift me, As dry dusts in stormy deserts, ...abreast the winds with joy and singing upon the harsh scorches of an unforgiving sun. Alas; Heavy I am, And weighed I lay. Fallen, pierced and crushed upon the thorns of injustices. Corruption pricking my very existence and fading my life to a state of inexistence. My tomorrow? Waning before my today from the lapses and failures of yesterday's self acclaimed "heroes" I bleed! My tomorrow?! A future I crave, For the birthing of a breezy dawn for tomorrow's generation to wing up and soar. Justitia! I yelled, Blindfolded you are, but u...
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