Call me out
Look they are coming again!
the ones that looted and cheated
leaving you to a life of death.
Look they are rising again!
the ones that made skies turn black
the ones that turned red to blood.
Look the cowards are coming again
the ones who weren't man enough to fight
but chose to touch the woman and the child.
Look the bastards have got together again!
the ones that dared lie to God
base and filth and what not.
Who let them out again?
Who are these nameless men?
They just show up now and then!
But don't they know who we are?
30 years on we are stained and blooded,
but now we make the rules, and the game is ours.
Women are not to be scorned
they grow you in their wombs
Can you forget where you come from?
This time we know how to fight
and we dare hold up our lights!
Who will you turn to this time?
The God you cheated?
Or the Lords you booted?
They won't save you in time.
Are you now man enough to show your face?
come call me out then, and let's rest your case,
Try looking me in the eye.
You will burn, you will fall in ashes,
with the blink of my eyes and lashes.
Because you haven't faced a woman yet.
Come call me out, for you I wait.
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An Elegy
You are lying there in cold
somewhere we still don't know,
we have unfinished business,
you and I, daddy.
Thirty-eight years have gone by
and we all live on, a life
borrowed from you, but you
know we all live in shame.
Feels like an entire nation
doesn't care, not really
for if we all did, we could
bring your killers to law.
And yet we have our pride in you
quoting you every now and then,
trying to show we care,
when essentially we don't.
We hold symposiums on
you and your work, we give
out rich prizes, we even build
a road or two in your name.
We try to show we care
about your work, what you
gave us, but not what we
took from you. Your life.
But if you want to know the truth
daddy, some of us never sleep,
we miss you, in a life
with a void, deep.
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