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Poetry

It’s Revolution Time

Mercy Mutheu Ngala
Last updated: August 13, 2024 2:34 pm
Mercy Mutheu Ngala 11 months ago
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The chants, the voices

Songs of war, songs of bitterness 

Smiles and determination 

For freedom

For our motherland 

For our future

For our people

My eyes fusing with a new spirit

My voice higher than ever before 

The unending march of citizens 

The runs and teargas

It’s revolution time

 

My hands up for peace and freedom

Raising my voice,  my flag, for my land

The riots, then being athletic 

Smokes of teargas 

The voices at far, tears of blood

Heart beats burst, and now the cloud

The cloud was dark

Mouth was dump, live bullets struck

Hands covered in blood, my knees down

I tried, I tried to fight, my voice silenced

No last word, but I had a call

Call that cost my life, the bullets

The penetration to my chest

Tell mama I’m a soldier 

A warrior indeed mama

Making your wrongs right

Writing new history of Freedom 

Mama I tried for you, and us 

Dad a strong man I am

I run and raised my voice

A warrior in country attire

The soil was warm and got hot

The cloud was raining blood

Their steps and cries of my life

Not me, but I see many of us

All in cold blood Daddy

 

Tell them to chant more

Kill political hypocrisy 

Stand for the soil made barren

Revolution doesn’t end

Revolutionary doesn’t kneel

Fighters don’t blink a bit

Liberators don’t sleep

It’s revolution time

Time to call them down

Time to cut the chain

Say no to oppression!

Make the end of cold blood

End of the evil ideology of rulers

End of Genocide 

Call and tell them

Our land is burning 

Remind them that they swore the oath of protection 

Their country erased, their souls soiled

Their efforts betrayed, bullets to brothers and sisters 

Their loyalty to the imperialist

Where do you stand?

Who do you protect and serve? 

Why the evil?

Vows are broken, nights of bullets

Children are buried

Their dead eyes are on vengeance

We shall give them our own narrative this time

With blood written on walls

Bloody eyes and tears full of burning rage

The cries of the spirits shall announce their death

The streets shall be full, clouds will darken

Thunder will expose the enemy

Every force shall be on him

He shall slit himself from our voices

Voices and chants shall sing to people’s victory

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