Home » Poems » Nthabiseng Moraba » No More

No More

No more creativity deemed on 
the exercise of rotten faculty
Nor burning intelligence’s 
penalty
Nor repression sold as 
suppression
Nor dissemination of distortion 
I shall be content at dawn
To take my leave
Subjugation’s tyranny’s ambition
It’s combat? 
Humanity’s mission
Submission’s antithesis is 
faction
Behold as protest is deemed 
agitation
As justice refuses man’s 
gratitude
Take my head be-header 
For this truth you shall never 
erase 
For I am decapitated but not 
capitulated
Speak not of blood ties when 
you only bleed lies 
Repression is a passport to 
humanity’s extinction
I’m neither angel nor devil
Nor saintly nor evil
I am human  
Striving for what’s right
Enemies call me cold 
I belong in no shelf 
I put no labels to myself 
Save to say love is my way
When walls brought stuffy 
indoctrination
And repression funded mental 
assassination
Humanity created a blowing 
wind
I climb beyond the human 
heights
When I'm telling the truth 
Explosive in the extreme
I’m called subversive
When i’m only creative
They call me kinky
When i’m only inky
I raise an objection
And get a rejection
When the best brains become 
exterminated
And purity poison to 
contaminate 
For if the worst doesn’t come 
to the best the sun shall
rise in the west..

Post Comments

Poetrysoup is an environment of encouragement and growth so only provide specific positive comments that indicate what you appreciate about the poem. Negative comments will result your account being banned.

Please Login to post a comment

Nthabiseng Moraba

Date: 2/17/2016 11:24:00 AM

It is only through Education that Man can find Eqaul opportunities. An Open, Educated Mind can be a Powerful Tool used to Teach and Educate a Benighted Mind. All Lives Matter as it is said "Every man was Created Equal" but perhaps most might find that rather questionable when we Live in a World where the Color of your skin determines who you are! Connie,

Patricia L Graham

Date: 2/17/2016 10:50:00 AM

'... as protest is deemed agitation' as we also assert that Black Lives Matter. Powerful. A lot of lives lost in the West but most have come and gone unnoticed ...