Silent Screams After Abu Sheriff

These words are ghostly voices 
Heard from the ruined of hunted houses 
Unheard by those innocent ears,
tormented by accomplices who sit in fear 

These words are writers’ thoughts 
Fertilized when their ink meet their papers
Bringing forth testimonies of those unheard 

These words are stars at night
Unseen when the moon illumines the night
Radiates yet during night’s darkest moments
When the moon has lost its light and might 

These words are sounds of a trumpet call
Sounded each day by poetry’s angel 
Summoning the aggressors,offenders, to change 


These words are rumors in our societies 
Beautifully coated, unfortunately ignored 
They are the silent screams of society’s atrocities today.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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