WE ARE HERE FOR ALL OF US(A poem inspired by Alicia Keys' song)

A poem that talks about the love worthy of being shared a togetherness of all humans on earth irrespective of the gender, race, religion and beliefs.

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Let's talk about pride

A cerise scarred wings

Burdened by the chagrin of falling

Amongst wingless coloured folks

Thus, traipse like an unsatiated predator

Let's talk about war

The deafening silence from the toddlers' cry

And the stagnant fear in the wails of brave men

The wisp of curling angry smokes

Stifling the hard earned breath

Of wandering souls in half baked bodies

Cascadded narrowly on the bossom of crook earth

Muddled along with the chants of dirge

And lines of withered tears on bereaved cheeks

Let's talk about poverty

Stigmata stretched on weary infants faces

Breeding stillbirth smiles on empty cheeks

Limping stung dreams on a dry shaft routes

And a whole country a battalion of beggars

Surging shambled shallow minds to the mellow

Tunes from the strings of rounded ropes

Let's talk about rape

Subjectives borrowed from the abode of bruises

And tears shed from the stabbed hearts

Torn pants left unstitched

By men and women enslaved

To the foul, worm bred cakes of lust

Let's talk about violence

Broken bottles, fuming eyes

Flaccid flesh flickered openly by starved blades

Guns, blood, expect a sudden myriad funeral

Let's talk talk about the bar set within selves

The cloak of guilt we rented

The future we tail with the eyes of the past

The peace we left shattered

Like a defeated Goliath

Let's talk about the abandoned dreams

And the flushed ones

Made to taste the sour wine from the cup of life

Just to share the fruit from the garden of lust

Let's talk about religion

The night sons in form of shyster men

Dressed in the tailored garment of guise

Playing with the greasy tongues of the devil

While blind men feed fleshy notes

Into the spacy belly of the insatiable tithe

Let's talk about tears

A mystical misery surfaced from a lone land

Welling up with sabotaged emotions

Crystal, transparent, timid

But dark, clouded and wild

Let's talk about countries

Living in unending penury

Let's talk about nation

Poisoning the open stream of education

The wretch justice and wealthy crimes

And the mass hysteria in nigeria

The rogue and intoxicated peace

And the brutal rape congestion in india

Disturbing silence behind sealed doors

Bombing and starved tongues in afghanista

Let's talk the sieving words in our promises

Of our empty brains parading like an elongated gorrilla

Now let's talk about love

The giant sheltering wings on pertubed minds

Let's talk about peace

It's timidness, oneness and pureness

We are here, are we?

We are here for all of us

Through strifes portrayed in our dark palms

And pains and infinite tale revealed in our eyes

Through joy, and unconditional love

Are we? we are here

Let hands reach through each heart's depth

And draw out the gleamest of all treasure

Love, oneness, peace

Let us all unite with a golden soul

And clear the misery sideways the path to tomorrow

We are here for all of us

Are we? we are here!

Written by: Adedeji Raphael