Humanity

A life that you own yourself not Of brutality and torture Of head and heart work Of hunger and thunder A life bitter than bitterness. #HABAR OFFSPRING of love divine, Humanity! To who, his eldest born, th'Eternal gave Dominion o'er the heart; and taught to touch Its varied stops in sweetest unison; And strike the string that from a kindred breast ©Divine Martins We are not dogs but chained Deprived the right to breath Heed to no one but our masters Fed with garbage and junks Speaking of cloth, rags are all we knew. #HABAR From the slight puncture of an insect's sting, Faints if not screened from sultry suns, and pines Beneath the hardship of an hour's delay Of needful nutriment; when liberty Is prized so dearly, that the slightest breath That ruffles but her mantle, can awake ©Divine Martins I can remember the story Told by our grandfathers Of a slave who lived a life In between life and death All because he respond late. #HABAR Tears with stripes. His quivering flesh; with hunger and with thirst Wasted his emanciate frame Exhaust his vital powers; and bind his limbs In galling chains? Shall he whose fragile form. ©Divine Martins We work from sunrise to set Whether our bellies smile or not Just like everyone we have feelings Of love and wants But for survival sake, we swallow them all. #HABAR Again we tear the morsel from his hands; An useless booty! while the sufferer droops. Of keen enjoyment,can you boast? Add poignance to your pleasures! Can their tears delight you,can their groans? @Divine Martins A life of a clock A life of confinement A life filled with spikes A life filled with all sort of woes A life that I will wish to my enemy not. #HABAR The noblest freedom, freedom of the mind. From the bounds of right and wrong given. By penalties severe; which often flow, But always certain, on the guilty head, Pour down the terrors of the wrath divine ©Divine Martins