Shamsa Suleiman Poet Enclosed Rhyme

Sold

You know I used to think you loved us 
I used to think you cared for us
I used to think that you needed us
 Until the day you sold us

You told me you had no choice
You said there wasn’t another way
You told me that without us life will be better 
You said all this in the form of a letter 
You sold me.
You sold us.

I used to ask myself how you could have sold my brothers and sisters before me 
How you could have traded one of your very own blood for a complete stranger 
How you could stand there and watch me burn
Then very calmly take a turn
Now I know.

I know you sold me and my soul
Because you wanted money to build your hole
Had you looked properly you would have seen Cole in that very own hole
 But wait!
Where is the Cole that was in that very own hole?
Oh I forgot that Cole was also sold
After you realized our home was never really cold 
All the money that you got hold, and never told From that stranger who took you on that stroll 
You sold me and you sold my soul.

But you see I don’t feel sorry for me
I feel sorry for the ones that will come after me 
Their childhoods will be full of glee
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But their adulthoods will not be so free 
Between them they will constantly disagree 
From their homes and countries they will flee Because they felt that no one cared for thee.
The ones after me will struggle
Because of all the things you smuggled
The ones after me will struggle
Because they just couldn’t juggle
The ones after me will not snuggle
Their actions will be worse than that of free animals running wild in a jungle.
You sold me, you sold all of us, You sold a generation
Now they have no souls
Just because you had your own goals 
Goals that involved a body for a roll 
Objectives that involved a soul for a poll.
We were sold
By our very own blood
Now sit back and watch the flood
Turn our once beloved land into a pot full of mud.

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