Ramadan Poem | Day 26: We Seek Mercy by Onafowokan Taofeek Busayo
WE SEEK YOUR MERCY It appeared one day how to speak in griefs Stuffed of threats, oppressions and…
WE SEEK YOUR MERCY
It appeared one day how to speak in griefs
Stuffed of threats, oppressions and victimization
He was a boy learning how to kiss
The jug of wars that his families
Drank in one hot weather
Between wombs and bombs
Between peace and pieces
Between freedom and free-doom
Like how to swallow a persistence of loss
That bench and so, belch
the lands in the hands of the hypocrites.
Oh Allah,
Protect us
For we are like a shadow looking for a body
We are like a vacuum in need of a matter
We are like a deaf waiting for a voice.
by Onafowokan Taofeek Busayo