Stop the Violence by Nomar Knight

Save the children of the street,
Tripping over graves under their feet.
Older people run in fear.
Pendulum of death swings so near.

Terrifying games are being played.
Hour by hour new graves are made.
Echoes of cries that will never fade.
Vivid memories of death and hate.
Ignorant youths challenge their fate.
Oppressed people flailing in vain.
Lads see a future with nothing but pain.
Everyone looking out for number one.
Never believing one day they'll be done.
Cries for help go undaunted.
Electric streets, forever haunted.

© Copyright Nomar Knight 2008. Reprint. All rights reserved.

Source:

http://knightchills.blogspot.com/2010/11/stop-violence-by-nomar-knight.html

Dis lines no calm at all...!!!

Dis lines no calm at all
Cos my mind dey voke, 
Invoking wailings of unheard cries buried.
and my blurry eyes dey scary to even look at.
My dairies and memories of swallowed grudges,
grudges of pains and stains of blood on sheets.
No mistake am for virginity but in-sanitized mutilation, 
frustration and humiliation wey dem take hammer,
dem wey 'we' call 'men.'
Cos true talk na women nuture 'we' 'men'
So dem no be prey,
abeg shun violence.

You wey say sound of her cry,
Dey make you high,
When your conji high,
Na her thigh you rely on.
Lie for same bed lie give her say na,
Culture palle pickin secret,
you no need fly to call you winch (witch).
Palle like you na your daughter,
you dey burst so,
She no be prey,
abeg shun violence.

How much be sorry for market,
Or the cost of care for Ariaria?
How much be smiles for your face?
Or the cost of affection for your heart?
How much eee even cost for your to pay attention to this?
We call men to true talk,
women no be prey
My people, 
abeg shun violence

By 
D-Ray

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE by Osowe Gbenga

I was thinking about Domestic Violence and how it continues in a cycle (men who grew up to see their fathers beat their mothers are less likely to see anything wrong in beating women etc) and the thoughts brought this poem titled CYCLE.

CYCLE OF VIOLENCE

I have chosen to speak

to lend the world my words 

and let my voice be heard

loud and clear

Against the violence of silence

perpetrated against the ones we ought to hold so dear

causing them so much bodily and mental harm.

I sound the alarm, 

that the cycles might be strengthened no longer

that our females may suffer no more

and that our wives and daughters may weep no more.

I choose to speak,

at the plight of children who witness their mothers being beaten and battered,

watching as her cloth is shred into tatters.

As she  is stripped of her dignity and humanity

By the same man who once claimed to love her,

swearing an oath to honour and protect her.

But,

Now, his fist is her face's unworthy yet willing companion daily.

She sheds tears, 

losing blood

not for man's ransom nor eucharistic communion.

She shed her blood, 

her life,

dying in bits,

cowering and pleading, 

while he beats her.

and she stays silent.

A victim,

and a  perpetrator of the violence of silence

She stays,

keeping mute and enduring

for the sake of her 

Son,

who now believes that  the answer 

to every female's daring questions and smart retort is a punch

and a kick.

Daily, his fragile human mind is being transformed

to that of a savage,

who thinks that the body of a woman is meant to be ravaged.

A victim of the vicious cycle

So for him I speak, 

and for the sake of his younger sister,

in whose mind is etched the imagery of her father's savagery.

She hates men with a passion,

her life a lesson in delusions.

The words of her mother fill her ears,

"Men are bad,

they are the spawns of the devil

and in them is the seed of evil."

She knows not, 

that not all men are brutes. 

Even if to many you dare not ascribe the word cute.

She is a victim,

caught in the cycle strengthened by our silence.

And so for her I speak

against RAPE, domestic abuse and sexual harassment.

And I say

break this cycle

and STOP THE VIOLENCE NOW!

by 

Osowe Gbenga

Stop the Violence...!!!!

The phrase violence against women is a technical term used to collectively refer to violent acts that are primarily or exclusively committed against women. Similar to a hate crime, which it is sometimes considered this type of violence targets a specific group with the victim's gender as a primary motive.

The United Nations General Assembly defines "violence against women" as "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life." The 1993 Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women noted that this violence could be perpetrated by assailants of either gender, family members and even the "State" itself.

Worldwide governments and organizations actively work to combat violence against women through a variety of programs. A UN resolution designated 25 November as International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

Poem written by Seye La Poet, Olulu, Kemistry, Arch Angel, Atilola and Titilayo.

Poem was compiled/ synchronized by Atilola

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No more tears by Daniel Ikekhuah.

No more tears

I feel shame when I look into the mirror;

I feel bitter to see what I’ve become.

I can’t tell my friends or family; who would believe me?

I can’t tell the police, they will only mock me.

I am that girl who people describe as little;

But you really don’t have a clue what I’ve been through.

The ones who are supposed to protect me;

End up taking advantage of me.

At sixteen I was called a pretty teen;

But daily I deal with low self-esteem.

Used and abused by the ones I look up to;

I being pushed, and might take my life if it comes to.

Marriage was supposed to be my sweet haven;

Nothing else to compare except God’s Holy Heaven.

But in the arms of the one I truly  loved;

I suffer the pain of his fist as thick as gloves.

And when he is not hitting me;

He speaks uncaring cold hearted words, stinging me.

For better fore worse was the vow I took;

But better remains oblivious,

As this journey keeps growing worse.

I am that woman next door;

We even go to the same market, in the same bus;

I am that girl in your classroom;

Who you think is being pompous in your point of view;

I am the little girl in the playground;

All by myself, ensuring no boy is around.

I yearn to tell my story

That justice would take the glory

But will you accept back in society

And not point your fingers back at me….

I beckon on you;

Come to my rescue.

Help tell my story;

That justice would take the glory.

Else I'll cry; till I have no more tears in my eyes.

by Daniel Ikekhuah

Word Up Volume 6 is scheduled for November 23, 2013 at Terra Kulture, V/Island, Lagos, with the theme, "Stop the violence." The event theme is centered around the United Nation’s “International day for the elimination of violence against women.” 

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FALLEN.........!!!!

Not for their sin; not for my sin

then for whose sin?

Maybe not for sin.

Cries, tears and wails

Amidst the agony, anguish and pain

Cut through the air of smoke and settling dust

Orphaned children,

Sudden childless parents

Broken limbs…shattered dreams

They go by the name boko Haram

Their goal remain to create more harm

But why ?

Their reason remain confusing.

They have unleashed their terrors

My people now live in horror

Life suddenly has lost taste

Justice seems to have lost the case.

Shall we go on like this?

Shall thing continue to be like this?

No, stand with me my brothers and sisters

For we need to work together

Write if you will,

talk if you can

But just do something

And lets together,

put an end, to these orgies of violence.

We can no longer engage in the violence of silence.

by Lion Kisser