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Two Poems from our Dark Poems, Depressing Poems, Death Poetry Collection

 
 
Freedom Cry
   
Author: Ben Otieno
   
Poem:
Freedom Cry
   
  The river wanders free
Birds from tree to tree
More whispers, less song
Oh freedom! Hear our cries!
Our expectant petitions
Echoing across the harsh desert

We came, we fought, and we bled
Millions lied, were lied to
We cried, were fried in our own lies
Many have unjustly died
We could shed rivers of tears
Or eat each other alive in vengeance
Not a single soul trusts another anymore
As more lies come with the winds
We are paranoid and traumatized

We swam across each other’s blood
To reach this bank we stand on now
Their splish was paid for by our splash
To counter the cruel saints and holy devils
Whose gentleness and silence
Were too painful and loud
For us to bear nor hear

They split our tongues
Like that of a Cobra
Now we speak in division
As we slumber on sleepless pillows
We are trapped in a chainless bondage
Fate glares with its grotesquely veiled face
Silhouetted on a mosaic of malice and mischief
Preying on our deficient position

Only the sympathetic yellow moon
Smiles consolingly, empathetically
Peeping through the clouds on the night sky
Smiling at Annaba and Cape Town
Smiling at Alula and Dakar
When will we have the freedom
To return her gay smile?
   
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Silent rage
   
Author: Ben Otieno
   
Poem: Silent rage
   

I can almost touch the horror
Hanging over your hospital bed
From where I stand rage chokes my composure
I can see your tender terrorized innocence
Your tormented virgin soul
Your confounded conscience
And your blistered esteem…
Your ordeal eludes my understanding
And I seem not to reason why…
Why your predicament could not be averted
Yet you tried to say it in word and manner
But you were ignored because you were just a child
And children can say some outrageous things…
Like feigning defilement by a kin or a neighbour
They shut you up child but I will speak on your behalf
Till these ogres are hanged on the nearest lamp post

 
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