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Intimidation

What turn once a brave to coward If not intimidation What kills the moral of the brave To turn cold and stay silent If not intimidation What keep the people Quietly in fear If not intimidation What drives the poor insane Yet he cannot say how he feels If not intimidation Our government intimidates The hell out of us in Africa We could hardly say what we want Our mouth has no paddocks Yet we cant speak Speech is free But not with this intimidation All this men on black and black intimidates the hell out of our right Openly they exort money from the poor on the streets Openly they shoot at them too Yet none can act Either can everyone defend their right All cursed by intimidation Our law keeper intimidates us How can you arrest a person Who don't know the law How could he know the law when He got no means to Was it his or her fault not to go to school Or rather can they be blamed of the corruptions that stop all they could enjoy and instead let them to confussion Yet none can act All just because they are intimidated Intimidation Is what we get after our votes Intimidation Is what they offer to us After they get to power Is like it runs in their blood to always intimidate us Is like it runs in our blood to accept it and live as cowards It been happening so long before I came on earth This intimidation Is so common in Africa and where Africans are found World wide It comes in different ways with different systems We always fear the unknown Just for them to always have their ways Intimidation Is the root of our fears For we know the truth We see their lies Yet their intimidation Ties us so tight to their trees of Illussion Where it fruits are fears

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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