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 </div><p></p><figure id="attachment_7828" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7828" style="width: 418px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/carved-images.png"><img class=" wp-image-7828 " title="Carved Images" alt="Carved Images" src="http://wordsrhymesandrhythm.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/carved-images.png" width="418" height="352" loading="lazy"></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-7828" class="wp-caption-text">www.facebook.com/WRRPoetry <strong>[Carved Images]</strong></figcaption></figure>No, I won’t bow to your carved images!<br>
Can they heal the sick or give life?<br>
They will turn soot when the Most High rages!<br>
No! I won’t bow to your carved images!
<p>Unto different gods, you savages<br>
<a class="zem_slink" title="Hammer-on" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer-on" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">Hammer on</a> drums and blast on fifes;<br>
You chant foul songs- your elders and sages,<br>
And sacrifice babes with your knives!<!--more--></p>
<p>No! I won’t bow! To your carved images:<br>
Can they heal the sick or give life?<br>
Set me aflame in cruellest of cages,<br>
<a class="zem_slink" title="I Will Not Bow" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Will_Not_Bow" target="_blank" rel="wikipedia">I will not bow</a> to your carved images!</p>
<p style="text-align:right;"><em>Written by: Kingsley U. Ayistar</em><br>
<em>Edited by: Kukogho Iruesiri Samson</em></p>
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