Cemeterians

It was supposedly a riot
Or something of the sort
It was supposedly a kill
And a few hundreds more
It was supposedly a tear
Rolled...
in a hurry down a thousand faces
and though I wasnt there to see it
I sure heard.

It was supposedly pain
And wails, fears...
And the perception that informed the knowledge that well,
It'll always be here.

Its supposedly this thing
That I hear, numbs you to feel.

I dont know why we stare at you on TV
Sharing stories of me and my own
That I know, I really should know
Telling me things that I dont dare think.
I'm sorry but there's gotta be a file somewhere back there for...
"God have mercy"s
Since God is sure to send yet another begotten son to save the good, forgive the uglies and maybe if we're lucky; undo the wrongs so that no one, not one of my kins would ever be forsaken

Yes yes! I knowwww!
I know, Mr.
I heard it too.
Though you narrate it like its something new.
I'm just as bothered as you.

Hey, but the other day,
I just about made the biggest change!
I just about cried loud enough
For its echoes to make a quake.

Hey, I know, Mr.
Did you hear me say...
I just about remembered
What exactly you were trying to say.

Are you listening?
If today, I was to stomp my feet in a dessert full of bees
If today I was to shout in a pond full of bears
If somehow today I became pyromanic,
listen to me...
...and I lit a fire in a cemetery mister mister,
Hope you hear me...
Which one of the dead bodies would get up to rescue the rest or easier yet mister,
riddle me this... who would run?

Just when...

... you think you've seen it all. It'll all be over the moment you get a chance to. When you get up out your seat, it'll be you; Big SuperYou with your cape and mighty powers; to the rescue. You are that one devine intervention that will rise to conquer evil, restore morality, and save Nigeria.

Then you see this:


... and hear the story of how that bus was ambushed on Lagos (Nigeria) expressway, how armed robbers, robbed and raped the passengers and instructed the driver to run the passenger over at gunpoint...

...and then you realize... you'd waited a day too long to stand up.


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