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Samuel Okike
Student, Copywriter, Photographer, Poet, Philosopher @ Ibadan
Africa bleeds again
<p>"Africa Weeps in Silence"</p><p><br/></p><p>The drumbeats echo through the plains,</p><p>Once proud with dreams, now bound in chains.</p><p>The sun still shines on golden land,</p><p>Yet hope slips through the people's hand.</p><p><br/></p><p>The ballot box, a hollow shell,</p><p>Where truth once lived, now lies to sell.</p><p>The voices rise, but no one hears,</p><p>Their cries drowned out by greedy ears.</p><p><br/></p><p>From Lagos streets to Nile's proud flow,</p><p>The seeds of justice fail to grow.</p><p>Corruption sits in thrones of gold,</p><p>While children shiver, sick and cold.</p><p><br/></p><p>They promised schools, they built high walls,</p><p>They claimed to rise, yet let us fall.</p><p>They wear our colours, chant our name,</p><p>But play us in a losing game.</p><p><br/></p><p>The youth, with fire in their chest,</p><p>Are told to wait, denied the test.</p><p>Bright minds are dimmed by power's lies,</p><p>As dreams decay beneath the skies.</p><p><br/></p><p>Still mothers pray and fathers fight,</p><p>For morning to replace the night.</p><p>But dawn delays, and tyrants thrive,</p><p>As broken systems stay alive.</p><p><br/></p><p>Oh Africa, so vast, so deep,</p><p>You rise, you fall, you bleed, you weep.</p><p>But still within your battered soil,</p><p>There sleeps the strength to end this toil.</p><p><br/></p><p>One day your children shall arise,</p><p>With clearer hearts and wiser eyes.</p><p>To build the world you truly deserve,</p><p>A land of peace, of voice, of nerve.</p><p><br/></p><p>Till then, we write, we speak, we warn—</p><p>Of all the dreams that died unborn.</p><p>Of governments that failed the test,</p><p>And left the people dispossessed.</p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p>
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