Hello
Hello!
You seem to have made
me a forgotten memory,
But I’m a reality, that you never realize is
Right in front of you,
still you choose to be blind
Hello!
You drive by me every morning
After you've had a nice dream
But I, during the night is pardoned
By nature's breeze.
You get filled with luxury
While I yawn for the crumps
That never reaches my feet
Hello!
I've been isolated
We've been isolated
Tanned with a lasting stigma
That flows through our children
Do we never come across your minds?
Even for a sec?
We are peasants
The only ones who never get to their dreams
Hello!
We are trash seen on rags
And waste bins that will get rotten in time
Irritating blue dogs
Disgusting sour eggs
Forgotten creatures of the void planet
Cold bricks of woods
Hoping to die frozen
Leafs to cover our disdained skins.
Hello!
Our voices turns to echoes
Our children sinks to the depths of the sea
They yawn for the walls of education, but are burnt.
You sneeze into our poverty
We never even get the chance to dream or imagine
Neither do we relax our mindless minds
Because we don't lay with both eyes closed.
So if the rulers of the night
Comes visiting to dominate
The little we've survived
We could race to somewhere else
However, we race to the bridges,
The bridges full of monstrous monsters
Same lane you dance by
Seeing us flying with our plates or non.
you tied your heads to the train
Keeping them straight and glued to the front road
Like you never saw any living insects
On the streets of Vegas
Hello!
Yes we are homeless!
Yes we are hopeless!!
But we are not dreamless,
How long shall you pretend?
That you lack the capacity to set us free
Free like a bird
Have you no compassion for us?
You could make our dreams come true
But you put them on wears and holds
Letting our talents
Fall down the way side
Our music, to the dogs
Our raps, to he bedbugs
Our crowns, to the mosquitoes
Are we not worthy of good living?
Or has life itself thrown us
To the den of bees?
Hello!
How long shall we suffer?
How long shall you forget?
Copyright © Tonye George | Year Posted 2017
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