OSIGWE BENJAMIN
We sell our trust to worthless buyers in exchanges for peanuts
We let them preach us decorated lies
For us to habour hope for the future blessings
They preach love but, hold on so tight to hatred in hearts
They preach change but join the Abiku race to inject us with pains
Beggars from different kiosk quarters
Scattered in streets, moving in tow
Clattering plates with their un-toned songs
To win attentions, just for daily arms
And mummies line in death lanes
Straining their weak voices for already crushed wealths
That may not be revived if hands folds on
With tight sealed lips
We lay our pains on titanic smiles merging sadness and happiness
Life and death
For fear is gradually kissing us out of life
We fix irony on words
To make wounded hearts mild
But we can't keep this ball of life rolling
On self propounded lies.
Wishes are dreams
Be the change you seek!
I will preach it
I will say it
I won't wish it
Wishes are fantasies with wings
Flying away out of sight
With its betrayer's act
Abandoning you to drag yourself back to reality
And then hopelessness starts to parade in thoughts
Leaving one to wish that he could not have sold himself
We let them preach us decorated lies
For us to habour hope for the future blessings
They preach love but, hold on so tight to hatred in hearts
They preach change but join the Abiku race to inject us with pains
Beggars from different kiosk quarters
Scattered in streets, moving in tow
Clattering plates with their un-toned songs
To win attentions, just for daily arms
And mummies line in death lanes
Straining their weak voices for already crushed wealths
That may not be revived if hands folds on
With tight sealed lips
We lay our pains on titanic smiles merging sadness and happiness
Life and death
For fear is gradually kissing us out of life
We fix irony on words
To make wounded hearts mild
But we can't keep this ball of life rolling
On self propounded lies.
Wishes are dreams
Be the change you seek!
I will preach it
I will say it
I won't wish it
Wishes are fantasies with wings
Flying away out of sight
With its betrayer's act
Abandoning you to drag yourself back to reality
And then hopelessness starts to parade in thoughts
Leaving one to wish that he could not have sold himself
To his own minds eyes
And here frustration befriends all static wishers
I will preach it
I will say it
I will sing it like freedom songs
But certainly I won't dream it
For the income of illusions wishes
Are the shovels of our dead bones to come
Leaving the unburied dreams hanging
For more of our kinds to come drink
From glasses of pains and agonies
Direct and guide your trust, they are gods
And very priceless
Start now to chant your war songs
To be the change you seek
For there is no way out
Than we being the change we seek
Like Martin Luther King thought me to always remember
That freedom can never be voluntaraly giving by the oppressors
It must be demanded by the oppressed
And here frustration befriends all static wishers
I will preach it
I will say it
I will sing it like freedom songs
But certainly I won't dream it
For the income of illusions wishes
Are the shovels of our dead bones to come
Leaving the unburied dreams hanging
For more of our kinds to come drink
From glasses of pains and agonies
Direct and guide your trust, they are gods
And very priceless
Start now to chant your war songs
To be the change you seek
For there is no way out
Than we being the change we seek
Like Martin Luther King thought me to always remember
That freedom can never be voluntaraly giving by the oppressors
It must be demanded by the oppressed
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