The Wailing Widows (For The Poet. Edward Koifi) Poem by Jacson Gelato

Suppression, depression, oppression
are the favorite expressions of their hurt
and their painful past which they have memorized
and they nurse an inner revenge within themselves
hoping to find the stage where they can yell and tell
the world of their episodes of racism, discrimination
lack of peace, servitude, attitude and righteousness.

Like sorrow they keep crying about it repeatedly
trying to give vent to their anger and helplessness.
It does not give them any relief as it subsists
inside them like a lava in a volcano that keeps erupting.

And as they keep yelling at their inner defeat
their rage makes them feel empowered to express
but they fail to realize they are agonizing others
who have not been a part of their victimization.

But they endorse the innocent readers to re-read
all their inner dissatisfaction and disappointment
thinking as poetry it will deliver to them justice
when all they do is wail like widows on the graves
and make others to accept the melancholy of their mind
as good poetry when it is just a parody of one's ego.