This is Not Poetry (feat. Ebele)

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Valentine Okolo

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This is not poetry
They are my words handcuffed and carried away
In black Marias by men who play gods with guns
And wearing the official uniforms given to them
By those who rule, in order  to protect the people
Yet, they choose not to protect the people
Instead, they extort money from them
And have them
Locked up on trumped up charges
Written on statements of air

I want to be free
I want to be free
I want to be free

This is not poetry
It is the rage of wasted years
Of youths considered useless
By a system which murders their visions
And buries them in a graveyard of lost dreams
A system which leaves the youths to wander in the wilderness
Of uncertainty, unsure of tomorrow
Because for many of them
Tomorrow might never come

I want to be free
I want to be free
I want to be free

This is not poetry
It is the cry of the molested and the raped
The detained, and the sold
And the forgotten faces of  those killed in regional genocides 
Without names and buried in anonymous tombs
Those whose names might never ring a tune
Because they are poor
And the poor are the first to be forgotten in conflicts
Because they have no money and no fame attached to their names

I want to be free
I want to be free
I want to be free

This is not poetry
It is a memorial
For those murdered at the Gates of Blood
For those who came before us
And  those who would come this way again
It is a memorial for all of us
For the living as well as the fallen
It is a collection of all our rage, hopes and fears
It is a memorial of what we are and what we choose not to be

I want to be free
I want to be free
I want to be free

These are not pretty words
They are the truth
Unadulterated by years of fermented lies and deceit
These are the words whispered in married couples bedrooms
And shouted in bars
By men who drown their troubles in bottles of drink
These are the words raised up in protests
By those who refuse to be intimidated by bullets
And whose voices cannot be silenced

Now I am free
Now I am free
Now I am free
Now I am free
Now I am free
Now I am free
Now I am free
Now I am free

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