PRICE FOR FREEDOM [Poet]

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PRICE FOR FREEDOM


Like a sojourner, I did wander

In search of a safe place.

I've been ambushed by familiar enemies

My misdeeds, I do not know 


Like a lost sheep, I dawdled

Searching for shelter. 

For I've been surrounded by predators waiting to consume me,

My misdeeds I do not know.


Perhaps, I should never have been born

Perhaps I should have turned a blind eye

When my brothers suffered

And cried for help


Then maybe I wouldn't have witnessed the day

When the sun withdrew it's light

And sand on the Earth clogged together

Saturated with the life of my brothers


Nobody said freedom came at a price

No one said our rivers would turn red and turn salty

No one said to free our children

We'd have to make them orphans.

 

© Chukwunnabuikem Ugochukwu

             &

©Dee'pen

   30/11/21

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