Best Poems Written by Blessing Okolo

The Green Tears

. I have a right, a right to thrive

  You have a right, a right to live

  All life matter, we all matter

   I need a space, you have a place

   We were created  for each other

   I thrive on your expelled breath 

   My life depends on you

    I was committed to your care

    You need my airy  presence

   Which  I  loyally present

    Without uttering a word

     Never asking for more

 I was your silent companion

Sheltering you from rays ,until

Technology like a charming mistress

Blowed your mind away

Your inventions became my depletion

Your activities my distress

I plead to maintain my place

Knowing that I served, giving all I have

Sweet scent, sweet songs , succulent fruit

Fresh air, beautiful flowers I offered

But you needed more  than I can offer

My Whispers drowned by the noise

Echoed by the wind, unheeded by you

As the cruel axe bears down on me

Like an unfeeling invader 

Mindless and  merciless 

Scattering all my feathered guest

As I bowed to the pains,

Thrust  deeper  by each stroke

Only the birds understood

 Homeless and confused,

Helpless and voiceless,

tweeting endlessly

Green life matters,

A tree life matters.    

By okolo Blessing onyinye

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