Humanity
A life that you own yourself not
Of brutality and torture
Of head and heart work
Of hunger and thunder
A life bitter than bitterness.
#HABAR
OFFSPRING of love divine, Humanity!
To who, his eldest born, th'Eternal gave
Dominion o'er the heart; and taught to touch
Its varied stops in sweetest unison;
And strike the string that from a kindred breast
©Divine Martins
We are not dogs but chained
Deprived the right to breath
Heed to no one but our masters
Fed with garbage and junks
Speaking of cloth, rags are all we knew.
#HABAR
From the slight puncture of an insect's sting,
Faints if not screened from sultry suns, and pines
Beneath the hardship of an hour's delay
Of needful nutriment; when liberty
Is prized so dearly, that the slightest breath
That ruffles but her mantle, can awake
©Divine Martins
I can remember the story
Told by our grandfathers
Of a slave who lived a life
In between life and death
All because he respond late.
#HABAR
Tears with stripes.
His quivering flesh; with hunger and with thirst
Wasted his emanciate frame
Exhaust his vital powers; and bind his limbs
In galling chains? Shall he whose fragile form.
©Divine Martins
We work from sunrise to set
Whether our bellies smile or not
Just like everyone we have feelings
Of love and wants
But for survival sake, we swallow them all.
#HABAR
Again we tear the morsel from his hands;
An useless booty! while the sufferer droops.
Of keen enjoyment,can you boast?
Add poignance to your pleasures!
Can their tears delight you,can their groans?
@Divine Martins
A life of a clock
A life of confinement
A life filled with spikes
A life filled with all sort of woes
A life that I will wish to my enemy not.
#HABAR
The noblest freedom, freedom of the mind.
From the bounds of right and wrong given.
By penalties severe; which often flow,
But always certain, on the guilty head,
Pour down the terrors of the wrath divine
©Divine Martins
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