Am not writing to whom it may concern But to the poets whose silence i want to discern You are the prophets of the Word And if you mute you earn our world no profit Am worried you have gone hiding And abandoned your call of writing You have denied your pens the justice And you have played mute in many instances Where is your voice? Your fingers have slept And you haven't poured your heavy soul unto the paper Why are you not talking about the evil that has cast a blanket over earth dwellers? Don't you feel this tangible darkness that has enveloped our planet?
Where has your voice been when fathers have been sleeping with daughters Or it no longer matters For mothers to lie with their sons? Why have you spared your ink And just watch as kids stop taking milk and water and fight over beer None of you has been bold enough to write about that man who betrayed his nation for a piece of gold Have you forsaken your mission?
Your silence is too loud Are you dumb of the warning sirens And like the ostrich,you have buried your head to the soil with pride I wanna know why you have played dumb:why thee borrowed your ears to the waters and non of this you hear And our women throw their foetuses away like a man doing open excreta Arise oh writers arise and wipe away this coming darkness with the light from your papers for when the good are silence its evil done enough I wonder why writing pads are clean Yet men have stop desiring man and are siring thoughts to woo men Why have you not quoted the scripture to condemn this abomination? "Behold woe unto to man who lies with another man" Are there no writers to pull of this dark shirt of evil we have donned?
Am not playing saint by asking these questions But my conscious is burdened I need to offload this nagging from my shoulders Only you poets who can set my mind free So arise African writers Let your pens bleed the truth Two wrong never make a right But what you write can rectify all wrongs For prosperity will never forgive a man who goes to sleep during the day while goats eat his barn of yams