UHURU

UHURU,

When fear clings to you

A step forward petrifies you

And your insides scream for freedom

When your being screams

Not Yet Uhuru

A love suppressed

A love unrequited

A friendly gesture exploited 

Betrayal echoing around you

And your being screams

Not Yet Uhuru

When the storm rages

The waves in their anger bellow

The wind wails in lamenting libations

Calling our being to the fore 

The sun glares in petulant anger 

And your being screams

Not Yet Uhuru

When your quest for freedom burns

And it no longer pays to be mute

The floodgates of courage open

Sweeping all the fear and oppresion in its wake

And the mirror judges you

When enough is enough

And your being screams

Not Yet Uhuru

When the core is rotten

Maggot filled and poisonous

And all is vile and spent 

When the pungent smell permeates

And your being screams

Not Yet Uhuru

                                                         

When trust is betrayed

Lunacy lost

When all is said and done

And the guilty swear on deities

When the blood split laments

And peace knows us not

The ground thirsty for innocent blood

The earth loathe to yield for us

In trepidation the being wails

Not Yet Uhuru

When bellies protrude in hunger

A mother wailing

A child calling out

And yet again

The being screams

Not Yet Uhuru

It has to be done

The time is now

Silence not an option

It has to be done

The milk has long been split

The being wails

Not Yet Uhuru

The above was penned by myself @Ntoshtoyin, in the wake of the abyss our Nation has fallen into. The blatant racial discrimination, unapologetic and entitled, flaunted and honored. The black men looting his own.. each man standing for himself and the Gods promptly discarded.... NOT YET UHURU