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Dedicated to Ken Saro Wiwa Human\Environmental Activist And Others Like Him Executed For The Cause.

He spoke
Said they deserved better
They mobilized
Chanted slogans
Of freedom
Equality
Justice
Basic type things…
Their land
Was being pillaged
For black gold
A curse for the
plenty of black folk
...That fed the nations
Empowered governments
Destroyed lives
Of the weak
It tore away the land
Made oil flow between soil
And water
-To be thier
Hunger & thirst quenchers

They spoke
In thousands
Chanting:
“Is this not genocide
When the source
Of our livelihood
Is violently ripped
From our hands,
In front of our eyes?”
Being a minority
Doesn’t make me a micro-organism
An unimportant entity
I am
Woman
Man, just like you
We that honor the land
Deserve to benefit
From the soil of our birth
The riches of mother earth
Intended for all-including
Her die-hard enemies.

In response
They silenced him
Together with his comrades
Our warrior
Our freedom fighter
With a good ol’ fashioned lynching

“how long shall they kill our prophets
While we stand aside and look?”

I’m jamming to that song
Feeling like a rasta-woman
Pondering
They silenced him,
Dang, they silenced him…
Until I hear voices
At first murmurs
That eventually take shape
in the form of inscriptions
And as poignant as the
Truth that awakens
It hit me
They may lynch,
Gun down execution style
Use the silent method
Of biological warfare
-to bodies
But as for Words?

They are the creative engines
The unmovable movers
The catalyst that incites the revolution

They swerve through the air
Emerge from rocks
Belt through rivers
Become collective consciousness

Circulating as
Redemption songs
Famous quotes
Speech intros
Book intros
Mass movements
Forces
That bring about
Change