They Think I Can'T Sing Again
Yes…
Years have passed
Possessed of huge feet
Feats of mine already forgotten
Forbidden even to be reminisced by all
Yes…
My passions have lodged their complaints
They shouted, “We can’t do it anymore,
Too many don’t want us to sing
So we must shut up!”
Yes…
First, I must bow.
If I purpose to make my fart
Well heard over boundaries and biases
That it would destroy doubts in its wake like a tsunami
Yes…
Let the feeble minded believe what they want to believe
Me I know right now I’m way better than before
My voice may be now cast in concrete
But they forget who made me.
Yes…
They think I can’t sing again
I can’t sing more songs without a voice.
And they can be right; my sweet voice was yanked from me
And a croak of a frog was given to me instead to please whose ears?
Yes…
God did this because this was what they wanted right from the onset.
He satisfied them for once in order to satisfy me forever
Now I can sing for the deaf to hear and know
The power of My maker.
Yes…
I can sing again, just better.
Copyright © Leslie Nii Tete Annan | Year Posted 2016
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