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Graffiti

GRAFFITI
A little more complicated
A little more weird
A little more stupid like child's play, patty cake and oringo
Like rat tails wagging their way in milk stains
Like a child learning how to write the alphabets albeit crooked she believes her truth
Made up of wounds and twists, colours of paints, story of the struggles and pains
Through paints and brush we expose pains in the past
With bold faces and bold prints we salute our unsung heroes
Unspoken bold acts that saved a life or two
Right on this wall with strict restrictions crying out loud and clear "no posters"
"Usikojoe hpa", we create a podium for gutter activists, gutter artists
A gutterspress meant to pass on the pleas of peasants praying for peace
A media meant to out shine political moguls preying on us
Through sketches and portraits we preserve our history
We portray the fighting spirit of the underdogs, subalterns, subjugated
Cornered and kicked into pops,their eyes popping out they still peep out to a Canaan unseen
Call it wishful thinking but this fantasy is sometimes all that we got
We write our feelings, we write our wrongs and the wrongs committed unto us
We right their wrongs by writing them down
We purge our anger and clear our souls
With just a little paint and a brush
Graffiti speaks out to the masses

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