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 </div><p></p>Filled in my eardrum are rhythms of doom<br>
with the sweet tone of despair tuned in by bombing tales<br>
of sacred nations with naive notions tied on boomed killings<br>
to send serenity to the punctured hearts of slavery.
<p>We were forced to listen to the fainting voice of motherhood<br>
when her last breath gave a sign that diluted our oxygen in grief<br>
with tears as the only aide to bidding her goodbye from this mean world<br>
where enmity is the basis surrounding her oasis with jagged dreams.</p>
<p>Even at our comfort zones,our skins became host to zephyr of wars<br>
which relaxed the veins of our anticipated hope<br>
with compiled confusion to block our peaceful pores<br>
where helpless ribs are littered around the gasping pillars of injustice.</p>
<p>Racism raced to grace our skin colours with sprayed enmity<br>
from bereaved gouge of belief oozing death on raw dreams<br>
which inscribed discrimination on our palms as recognition<br>
for our worthy worth beneath the bloodstream of normalcy.</p>
<p>Follow me to the bony pastures withering whirling wailings<br>
upon battered arid skulls kept in the hollows of horror<br>
manned by corpses of men who welcomed their wives with tears<br>
of anguish barging into the lands of innocence below their cornea.</p>
<p>Why have the pieces of papa and mama become meals to war?<br>
Why have abnormalities vow to be our new garment<br>
which is a must for all to brag with under the naked sun<br>
with shadows of shame stuck on our infectious pigment?</p>
<p>Life, send your twin brother a message to the curtains of death<br>
hung by bloody might without insight of greater heights,<br>
That there shall be an explosive wind coming unawares<br>
with nemesis through the windows that made women widows below.</p>
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