Robert Abok Poems

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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