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The Poetic Word

City Of Vultures

BY GLORIA O’KOYE

They try to

Silence us

Try to

Bury us

Try to

Target us

Try to

Condemn us.

 

But our cries can no longer be contained in the belly of the beast.

These ranges are overflowed that the public

Are forced to see.

Even enemies are starting to feel more empathy, maybe sympathy,

But now at least they speak.

 

Parking lot justice are becoming media attention grabbing,

Even outlets want their share of their piece.

 

We are the reflections of society’s reality and well-being.

We are the reflections of political corruption

Coated in political correctness to be forgotten and shunned.

We are the reflections of the darkest innermost thoughts of a human’s heart.

 

You will not silence us,

Because one voice being cut off

There will always be another voice to fulfil that void spot.

 

We are the ones that were placed in the shoe because we spoke up!

Hunger strikes triggered across the land

Even the Ministry can’t turn the blind eye,

They reputation on the line

Their salaries risk being declined.

 

Even among their nest

There have been internal conflicts

With exhaustion from the veterans

The new ones come in new light with confusion; they don’t want to continue

So they make their own rules

Things do get worse before it gets better.

 

Unfortunately maybe this is only another trend that will subside like a dying candlelight,

But the fight cannot come to cease

Because as humans

We have the privilege of hope

The only thing that kept mankind alive

 

One way of the other

The city of Vultures will come down

Like the walls of Jericho

Like the walls that torn families apart,

When we least expect it,

Call it a miracle.

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