Silence Dehumanizes And Kills

Silence diminishes, beheads and kills Inactivity simply gnaws the heart and destroys We must raise aloud our voice, we must make noise And abort unheard echoes that stink To wake up the deaf and the stateless So that they can hear the sound of the putrid streams The lagoons, the gullies and the stinking rivers We must wake up the drunken dead who do not sleep We must shake the soil and make our footsteps heard The kleptomaniacs stole from mothers, fathers, uncles and aunts The obnoxious misers have ruined the future of cousins and friends We must wake up, get up, stand up to raise our voice in unison Against the backstabbers, the charlatans who've stained our ways By building roads so badly that flies and ants Have refused to cross, and when it rains, the rats Abandon these alleys and corridors, which are swollen with thugs And hired assassins. Inactivity is eating away the fibers of the heart Silence threatens, kills and spreads fears and phobias We must defend the future of our children and our homeland Silence kills and inactivity causes insomnia We must say and do something. We must verbalize, externalize And denounce the henchmen who continue to humiliate us Grab the microphone We must use our iPods, our phones To film the foul worms that circulate in the streets We must denounce the verses and the songs that stink And the lyrics which hypnotize and destroy the cells of our brains We must debase and expose their toxic words and their ills Silence degrades, dehumanizes and kills We must express ourselves in the streets We must stop mulling over the names of the wicked dukes All that is good is for life and bad things are short-lived Justice must step in, justice must intervene We must catch and arrest the foxes and the hyenas We must reject everything that is bad or evil By fighting for the joy of living and for quintessential peace. P.S. Kote kòb Petrokaribe a? Copyright © September 2018, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved Hébert Logerie is the author of several collections of poems.