Once in a century there comes a notable war,
To prove how uncivilized human beings are!
One steps up, reaching for the star,
The other steps down,
Leaving a never-vanishing scar.
O ruled people! Say no to war,
It has always favored the rulers so far.
“We are the saviors of the world,” they say,
Yet the shepherdless flock is left as prey.
What will justify the war?
What can replace the genocide of the little flower?
“Holy war,” they command,
What holiness do you see in the blood-soaked hand?
Left and right, they divide the world,
Yet both belong to the same word.
Having messed up this blue marble as much as we can,
Now praying for another one to mess it up again.
Categories:
shepherdless, god, inspiration, irony, war,
Form: Free verse
Sometimes when the calypso music explodes
Shards of memories glistening with my pain
My heart like a rhumba box sits silent again
Where slow surfs lap granite doors, genius erodes
The barriers that dreams could stream and rise
Like sprays fogless flowering the coastal skies.
And as academics meander through misty thoughts
Turning to me, inviting my precision of words
I am in the web of comparisons caught, herds
Of histories shepherdless now in stagnant paths
Tremble in the shivering winds of changes here
I represent the hopes anchored in ancient fear.
My education did not come the common way
But from libraries and borrowed books I took
The knowledge that in high schools would hook
No test, using baitless syllabus to stairs the day
Upward from ghetto streets and gang embrace
Scholared by ambition, I get my college place.
I am a kite today, with my string grounded still
In sugarcane fields of happiness, loud streets
Where sellers hawk their wares and love meets
Twinkling eyes, signals to a secret fruiting hill
Where school-less days I set my mind to change
The arguments that listed you and I as strange.
Categories:
shepherdless, educationeducation,
Form: Verse