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SHACKLES OF VASSALAGE



God made men, men made slaves

Projected misery and become a prey

a prey to trail and sheep to be slain

Fate stares and faith is bound in chains


Predators as the molten wilderness of sin

And the prey, the mocking whispering of the wind

To be stripped of spirit and soul and faith

By reason of a distinct race


Stricken from all pylons and obelisk

From the memory of time his name is erased

Stricken from all monument and bound and enslaved

It's real and live, surely it is no myth


No phantom can quake the distress of nights and days

Not through the burning crucible of deserts and pains

Phantom as rights are slayed and in the grave

Beaten into the dust from whence  it came


He awaits a day of freedom and the wind of change

His soul in turmoil from the hot wind and wavering sand of race

Learning that it is more terrible to live than die

One shawl, one life, his fate for life


His tortured mind wonders, should he call the memory of past a path

Nor the scorching fury of the sun a part to count

Each night brings the black embrace of loneliness

But the wine of desires run and is braced in his veins

After all dying is only a part of living

All about is desolation, desolation upon desolation

Into the blistering wilderness of slavery and frustration...


© KINGSLEY EZE

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