#treaty
Come, old foe, your visage grim,
My soul is bare, my light grown dim.
No chain of anguish binds me tight,
The hour is ours, beneath the night.
Sit, and let the silence flow,
As bitter winds through meadows go.
Your spear is dull, your blade is rust,
Yet here we are, in bitter trust.
Raise the cup, let sorrow gleam,
No victor's cry, no warrior’s dream.
This truce we carve in midnight's stone,
Two hearts that warred, now carved in bone.
May 7
May 7, 2026 at 11:28 PM UTC
They know the hand that strikes.
They have seen the match lit,
felt the tremor of foreign boots
upon their borrowed soil—
yet they open their gates,
spread their lands like mats
for the war-drums of another.
Tell me—
when did the host become accomplice?
When did silence become treaty?
They could say no.
They could close their skies,
fold their earth back into themselves,
deny the stranger his fire—
but no,
they lend him wind,
they lend him ground,
they lend him night to carry his bombs.
And then—
then they turn, robed in fragile peace,
to the bloodied one,
to the scorched and trembling body,
and whisper:
“Be still.
Do not cry.
Do not answer fire with fire.”
Ah!
It is the arsonist’s choir
singing lullabies to the burning house.
It is the market of hypocrisy—
where those who sell the knife
beg the wound not to bleed.
Call and response—
Who lit the fire?
They know.
Who fans the flame?
They know.
Who must now be silent in pain?
The victim—so they say.
But the earth remembers.
And ashes—
ashes do not lie
© Lanre Adebayo
Apr 30
Apr 30, 2026 at 2:49 AM UTC
in times of destruction, you need fierce force
in times of hunger, you need absurd appetite
glowin ******** have been encircling you
try to scream, but your vocal chords rupture
multi-armed street military, covid-19 deniers
9-to-9, 24/7, armies made of plastic angels
everything improvised and effective like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxBGzUhT-TM
TIZZOP doesn't always write, swallow dat link
as hate and anger overwhelm, GOD forces me to act
at age 13, they called me ***** Splash", so
i had to install 888 children who now my soldiers
in times of destruction, only family remains
in times of appetite, simply loyalty protects ya
Nov 25, 2020
Nov 25, 2020 at 11:39 AM UTC
We've signed that truce a couple hundred times
Still step on the same couple thousand mines
Sep 27, 2019
Sep 27, 2019 at 4:22 PM UTC
a treaty
that allure
is her
franc desire
but her
weight abreast
the top
that applaud
appeal with
her oats
but oleoresin
that you
infer her
armature is
not a
pogrom nor
a sham
Dec 22, 2018
Dec 22, 2018 at 8:57 AM UTC
Drums of Autumn tell us, grandmother,
what did they mean?
Did you ever get the Lincoln cane? Did you cry?
Kenny, I'as a orphan. I never knew.
---That happened, Kenny was my name.
I looked past the rim,
there was the Corn Mother,
I think that's what I coulda seen,
but then it's only Grandma, with a grin.
Kenneth means know, Grandma said, I gave you that name.
kenning handy, a knower, by God,
not handsome in that vain way they have today,
handy,
winsome in puzzles 'n' riddles 'n' such
Kokopelli's play mate, some day.
Mistooken words rot,
if they lie, idle, in the dust
meaning
nothing ever. I shall not want,
I was taught a mistooken truth,
I took it,
gript it tight,
Get a job. Live with some class, join
a club that
takes your kind. Some churches used to
use
the Rotary test, if you could pass that test
you could eat,
after the message at the mission.
true? fair? goodwill? wait
if the first test is failed, what matters?
fair good will benes d'vitas?
from the treaty bound liars who called my grand
mothers savages, all of them,
right by
right of conquest. their treaty verified it to me,
then they gave me blankets,
General Leonardwood,
nope, Lord Jeff Amherst did that, then we died.
Read the treaty, 1763, small print. Blankets.
From the small pox ward, went unsaid.
That was just,
after
the French and Indian war, where the father of
the force that claims world-wide military
superiority
sufficient unto the evil of today,
George, the man on the horse,
surveyor for the future,
fought injuns,
so the king could sell their measured land to freed slaves,
thus making the mortgage chain, so popular today.
Build a casino, get rich quick, it's in the treaty,
lotsajobs,
busboy, bus driver, maid, Sioux chef and so
many, many more.
Grandma, in my vision, turned and walked
into the desert.
I took her word.
Brushed the dust and breathed it in.
Then I spit against the wind,
winked at you and rode my wind away.
Free is easy, if you can ride on wind.
Oct 17, 2018
Oct 17, 2018 at 4:38 PM UTC
this is my last attempt
at trying to write about you.
i am sorry
that we couldn’t come to a consensus
on how to deal with the damage of
our hearts
or how we left the remnants of our love
scattered across the road like
a drunken car crash
in action.
i just haven’t felt the same
after the tear
of a seatbelt around my neck,
around my chest,
holding me back from the
arms of destruction-
trying to push me to safety
away from anything
that we
were trying to be.
this is the last time
i try to justify it.
i need you to start learning
how to forget me.
Feb 5, 2015
Feb 5, 2015 at 11:55 PM UTC