Life in the Eyes of a Child: A Poem
Life in the Eyes of a Child
I saw the sun of the universe
Before I was born
I saw the thorns of the universe
Before I was born
I read the norms of the universe
Before I left the womb
I saw the plights of the blind
The cries of the tribes
The crimes of the rich
The heaviness of the human heart
The home of the doomed
The horror, the torture, the puncture,
The programmed series of stress,
Everyone comes to face… I saw it –
I saw chains on my fellow preys
Before I was born
I saw dislike for my kind
Before I left the womb
I saw millions of my type
Buried in the womb
Not this very one is safe
I saw – tombs in wombs
I was still in the womb
Prey for an uncertain doom
I saw heads of my mate – beheaded
For famished grown to feed
Before I was born…
I know that is where I’ve come to pace...
Before I was born – I had formed alliance against them.
© 2018 Ebizimor Boloukie