I. Where art thou, the so-called freeborn Self righteous aborigine, of a past system Evil an alter ego, which casts caste Shan't ye die? because by my time already you are running late, Staling your space on the obituary Can't live a past life in this 21st century Enriched by culture and commerce Yet intellectually and morally You wallow in abject penury. Mr. Man, won't you rather die quietly Than live of such traditions that smirk of injustice In justice you'll find karma like in Newton's third law Swung on risen feelings of a larger public, as jurists Sentencing you into dark alleys, in the abyss Of adjectival villainous memories. Are you scared or Awed? Won't you die to live dead? Than die dead dead? Dead dead die or dead die live This is your brief. II. Even deformities do not make me a lesser man Than has opportunities made out of you a better man So who ordained you a reverend? Who made you a mouthpiece of the deity? That your proclamatory vanity Now seek to weave wools of subjugatory insanity Into that fabric, as worn by this society. In essence, grey hairs should trend back to rags? Like saying White should reclaim black? After all, since—dyes have not died. So is that not a true hue cue? Life is full of choices and line after line they queue I pick my peak you pick yours I seek my peace, you reek wars So just make your war ground abound only your mind Because your psychosis or neurosis doesn't mean you met divine. So still, won't you rather die to live dead? Than die dead dead? Dead dead die or dead die live This is your brief. III. Grey hairs have never said "wise" Already many atimes bullied, Now I didn't realize how I shied twice Shuddered to shrills of tales, not nice What a waste it has become, The first 'OSU' blood that was sacrificed For a society god's appeasement Also of lost potency, Albinos abound bragged off their rights. Banishing charms, Dane guns and knives I see some demonstrating, screaming "Ole*! Ole!" After I asked, they replied "It is an abomination, an OSU* can't be made our chief" Same way I was given another story pie, Just returned from the US*, home to get married Highly educated a doctor, for him, a 5 months pregnancy she carried Her family findings revealed he's of the OSU Lineage So at her family home doors, on the introduction day his people met a "we don't marry OSUs" signage Till date, she lives a single mum Silenced to such ills from plurality to dumb Abound Mum genders weaning such situations Silently disgruntled, untagged, yet made second class citizens We thought the tradition met abolishment, Yet many still are suffering victims. So Nwadiala*, won't you rather die to live dead? Than die dead dead? Dead dead die or dead die live Mr. Man, this is your brief.
*Ole (Yoruba): Thief.
*OSU (Ibo): Descendants of slaves and others considered low class or lesser human beings in a caste system.
*US: United States of America.
*Nwadiala (Ibo): Freeborn.
—REZthapoet
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