Richard Nnoli Poet Epic

Before 18

Before 18 
Is not funny any more 
This crisis never end 
In the third worlds
Every four years is same story 
In different ways in Africa 
Brothers and sisters dying
Every corner of the world 
Is never a breaking news 
Please show me the boss 
Show me hiso office 
He needs to see how 
The young dreams are a nightmare

Before 18
Is not funny any more 
Cos I was told that the youths
Are the great future of tommorow
Oh God could this be the biggest lie 
I ever had to know 
How ignorance and silence
To our needs 
Becomes the out cry of every youth 
As young as we are 
From our early age 
We are never far from abuse 
Before 18

Before 18 
Please I tell you 
Is not funny any more 
How this life of the third words 
Is like a hell and a torture
Why must we always dwell on
Same brutality 
Always trigger my spirit 
To pull light in to darkness
Our life are always on same story 
Our men are most commoner
Our women  sexualities 
Are not with moral no more 
Our young women at teenage age 
Are already enslaved to sex by poverty
That make me more crazy 
In a dying world 
Cos at our early age 
In the third worlds 
It difficult never to be abused
Before 18

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