THE BEAST YOU CREATED

Why are you scared?

Why are you lurking behind your curtains

Oh, so you never knew

That all the dreams you had

Would one day hunt you like nightmares

All you drank

Will surely purge out your intestines

Your rotund overblown bellies

Will be haven for cankerworms

And maggots in holy matrimony

The beast you have created

The Lucifer's courage you've implanted

The restless souls 

you hurriedly sent to the ways of their fathers

Their innocent blood now cries for revenge

Anikulapo Fela Abamieda sang "this uprising will bring out the beast in us"

I guess you never listen to Tracy Chapman

"All the bridges that you burn, will come one day to hunt you"

So, why shiver?

Why sleep with one eyes open?

Fidgeting at every slightest sound 

You saw the end at the beginning

You saw your neck at the noose or guillotine

You saw your body mutilated

Still, you kicked off the trip in all headiness 

Despite all the traffic signs

Your greed has cornered you

Your cockiness has worn you a medal of destruction

Your lust has crowned you nicely

Corruption sew a nice suit which befits you

But now, we are up

We have woken up 

Woken as the mysterious beast you tamed

The ferocious animal, once upon a time sweet and tender

An unwanted transformation we abhorred 

Our white, now stained with sweat and blood

Blood stain from our deceased protesters

Lives you suddenly cut short

And we say "NO", "NEVER" and "NOW"

Now we take over the mantle

For we are tired of living in fear

Tired of gambling our tomorrow, for it was never promised

We raise our hand in high handedness and say

"YOUTH DECIDES"

Enough is enough

@talk2leigh

12 Oct 20

12:22pm