Silence Our Survival

Silence is survival
Those who spoke up
We attended their funeral
Those who look up
We question their countenance
Brethren, Silence, I regret to say, Is survival.
Those who kept quiet
We see them tomorrow night
Those who are granted access to the corridor of power
Come out to tell us we should be calm
Everything is under control
In their pockets we hear the jingling of coins
Brethren, Silence, shameful of me to say, is survival
A friend of mine said ‘’too many keyboard activist’’
The revolution we wage is from our electronic device
I wonder what you will tell you children’s children
When they ask you where you were when The Country was failing
I know what i will tell mine, on my dying bed
Children, silence is survival.
We are here today because we kept quiet.
WE ALL KEPT QUIET!!!
WE ALL WATCHED!!!
*fading voice* we made Silence our survival —

Let Me Grow, Find me Home

Oh! Let me grow

Please let me bloom

I have my heart unwrapped for education

Not this selfless, mindless humiliation

Don’t take me from my home

Where i still weep for what I am yet to know

Don’t take me from my sisters with whom i play tic tac toe

I am fresh out of play grounds;

 Mother is not even done with my growing yet

How will my fragile life cope with your act...?

My dreams are scary enough already

I can’t even tell mother what i dreamt of

Don’t make my existence a living nightmare

I have painted pictures of rainbow over my books

While reading them has brought me endless joy

Let me live, let me grow... i am just a child

I am just a child. 

It Is Time.

Maybe its time to tell

Maybe its time to speak

Keeping silent degrades us

Making us feel unknown

Deforming our essence of existence

Maybe its time we get serious with our lives

By standing up to do what are rights

Not allowing superior complex to weaken us

Our strength lies in our words

Our words cometh from our heart

For so long we have watched our lives toyed with

Too far long we stayed behind unclosed doors

Scared of unknown plagues that could harm us

Its time we speak without holding back

Its time we fight before it gets dark

We will uphold our strength and fortitude

Then it will be said of us that we never back down

Our names will be carved on the stone of time

Read and re-read by generations to come

We never did the wrong they told us to do

We did the right thing we knew we should do.

#BringBackOurGirls #BringBackOurDaughters