Hunger Strike
Target for use by the Cruelly Ill-Used
Morally targetting his torturers,
Nobly tending a body and mind bruised
By the meanest sadistic adventurers.
All the time, a choice handgum of prisoners of conscience,
Nearly in the mold of a lamb cast;
A last resort of credence
That powerfully could compete with a fast.
But, man, it keeps making bowels
Annoying talking drums,
That of Activist Comrade Howells
Producer of the strangest hums.
Hunger Strike's never the weapon of the calmer character
Thumbing through the verses of the Holy Bible
And soon a whole chapter
For the silencing of The Impossible:
Rather to he Liberation Struggle could never be a past,
In his speeches The First Thing and never forgetting to be Last.
Easily, the worst option against a terrorist
With a mindset stuck in a groove
And a quickness to detect a humorist
In every hunger striker or what he must prove;
It becomes a self-inflicted pain
By a modern gladiator
Manacling self with the cruelest chain
And, therefore, to look not in the direction of a mediator.
To gluttons, hunger strike is a possible Edutainment
But to Dictators offered Plain Entertainment,
No empathy with striking ulcer sufferer
Now, little by little eyeing redeeming surrender!
Copyright © Chinedum Ekwobi | Year Posted 2021
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