Robert Abok

Daughter of my womb
You've stabbed my heart so bad
You've killed the bearer of your life
Daughter of my womb am dying
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Light shows as out darkness wears,
And she cannot bear it so she tears,
Weeping for a generation instilled with fears,
Trembles and uncertainties of what the day bears.
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That can't change, it still won't change,
For it's the reason I've opted for this page,
Trusting may be hard, for we are humans who age,
And daily we grow to forget the war we vowed to wage.
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Never had it occurred to me
That I would feel this way about anyone
Till now, I had never thought that you would ruin me
Make me shameless in the midst of my people
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A thought of you creates confusion,
A memory of you records no vision,
And these pictures and images keep flashing,
And I know not which to accept as the right person.
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This is a letter to some member
Someone listening and is a member of my gender,
We've received news of your atrocities
Not only in mine but in many other societies
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We do not understand that we are denying the truth
We do not understand that we are accepting the lie
We fail to notice how fast we erode ourselves
We do not understand that our local is exchanged for the foreign
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When the society is growing,
Expanding its banks like never before.
You aught to let the people know.
Let them know of the skills you posses,
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How do you tell someone you barely know that you love them?
That you are in love and with them you'd wish a future
How do you tell someone you've never greeted that you want to kiss them on the lips?
Have it too deep till none of you could hold it back
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Let it be today when we purpose to decide
Make a decision on the path to ride
Let's make today the day when the rest by the bank ceases
And the fears of whatever may lie in the waters come into its closing stages
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Even with light I dwell in darkness,
And I can’t focus for to me the future is night
I know not why life has to be this way
I don’t know yet why I dwell in this shadow
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Today I walked into a community,
Of a people so full of dignity,
Satisfied with their situation they lay silent,
Some white, others brown and others caged.
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I pray looking above,
Hoping for an answer of love
I pray that there lands a dove,
If not then be a butterfly,
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Once again as before,
We will sit on that very place,
I want to watch and play again,
I want it just as I did.
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Someday when we’re older than now,
One day when we are young no more,
When the ponds that we used to know are but estates,
And forests in which we hid are but highways
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“Rest in peace” were the inscriptions I read,
Down beneath these writings lay thy body,
With no path to follow tears evaporated,
For even the sun saw it an understatement to weep.
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When am gone and parked,
Before I am kept and stored,
I know not what good will be talked,
For then I will be silent with my heart hardened.
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Do I have to say it? I am hoping I might,
Saying it if not today, it’s now with all the might,
Maybe the worst, but an open heart makes my head light,
I implore patience as I unveil all that I’ve hidden from light.
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When I come as a thief in the night,
Not to kill, steal of even destroy as the good book says
But with me is a mission so different
And when they’ll ask what I seek tell it all
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If only I had the talent,
I would put everything in place and never relent,
I would not redesign nor would I recreate,
But I would put it today
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