Oh god
by
Christela Cabreros
"And until there comes a time when the world would actually come to a halt,
I don't think I should be worrying about what I've said and what I've
done,"
Says he of the supreme power holding on to the worthless quality of greed
Uncommon to such mountainous control where everyone else is left wanting...
"I am not to blame, I won't wash my hands of the sins I am not guilty of."
For sure, because millions of people are wrong about all the allegations,
They have been wrong before -- choosing you, they could be wrong now as well
Wrong about you, the idol of the masses, the lover of women, the father of many
They might as well accuse the rest of your disciples corrupt, is that right?
Well, this one you can't fool, this mind you can't change, this one life you can't buy...
I indict you for burdening my peoples' throats with more
lies and wasted blood
Spilled in their own hands from the veins of brothers they should've protected
I will cry treason without fear in your face,
unashamed of my youth and ignorance
To the real horror of your tyranny, if only my heart could bear the
harsher truth
I will not hide behind the distance because I know of braver ones who've faced you
Who've faced ungodly oppression and still managed to laugh at the face of hunger
My kind has known the fires of hell and the
emptiness of stomachs dying in debt
But my people, strong as they have always been, will not forgive you for this deed
I indict you for tightening the
grip on my peoples' throats hindering their breath
The same breath that will also power their voices to protest your meandering grace
You have betrayed a trust forged before you were born, of the people to its leader
Because a leader should do the best he can to insure that everyone lives at ease
And not live in ease at the expense of everyone, which is what you've accomplished
You've sworn in front of millions to uphold human rights and justice in our land
Instead you've crushed that vow, our children's
future, our trust, our hopes, our hearts
Now I will vow to dedicate this statement in memory of everything you've destroyed
And there would be no reason, on my part not at all, why you should even be allowed
To live at ease upon the graves of those who should have been alive but are not
I hope that somehow I will be able to take part in bettering my people's lives
Because I choose not to cower and I choose to use this voice while I still can
No matter how little the time I've spent on this and how small this act may seem
I just wanted you to know, and you know who you are, that this
is...
... from me
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