by Ositadimma Amakeze | |
Published on: Jan 12, 2007 | |
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Type: Poetry | |
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The judges They judged me to an edge Of what alone subsists in them That I fall off this precipice As a suicide from a cliff And I die every day and night In the crosses in their minds But they are them in crises Of scourges that lash back For if I were not guilty They wouldn’t be in shackles Of thoughtless thought to think That ‘am ruined in dooms Yet the free needs no discharge Nor acquittal from their mental jails They rally head to head, as like the parliament of vultures over a carcass, Call you to judgment, and there put it to you. They laugh and nod or rather shudder at the marvels of their allusion; and then whisper as if to the crevices. And with the clasping thunder of their thumbs, they strike you dead for the day, and adjourn the sitting for your excursion next day. Yet, from these prisons in their hearts, exudes from their lives, the fetid stench of lies and frustration. Here come the idle public judges! Thinking of the judgment you pass on me, my heart learns corruption, for thinking of the much evil you commit me to in your mind, I wonder if they wouldn’t be pleasurable if I take to them. You set your eyes on my steps, seeing the licentious things you know best through them. If you are not too foolish you would have seen the porosity of your anus! Mental emancipation of the mentally incarcerated is the antidote to the rusting bars of humanity. « return. |