I am sad at many things and for many reasons and it's such a very disquieting place to be, that place of helplessness and hopelessness, you want to do things to create a change in course but then your voice is drowned out before you even speak, your opinions don't count, never take wings. You can't make a difference no matter how hard you try, this really makes me sad. It's been a heavy burden to carry, feeling unheard and powerless to bring about the changes I hope for, the ones desperately required.
"She was covered in grime
Her teeth was all I could see
But beneath all that dirt
Beneath her cracked little feet
True beauty lay
In soft shades of Pink
She's a girl I won't forget
For she stood there
Dejected and broken
With a story scarring"
I'm sad at the gross abuse of girls and children by the same people who are supposed to be their prot茅g茅. It is heartbreaking and infuriating to see the very same people who have been given the responsibility of protecting and nurturing children and young girls become their sources of pain and agony. "A Judas In The House" is what I term it! This betrayal of trust is one of the greatest injustices that leaves me in tears, and it leaves scars that can last a whole lifetime, taking away their right to life and good living.
I was Grandma's girl, protected, tenderly nurtured and loved, I never was in that horrible place of abuse, just pure Love... Just simple pure Love!
Then I remembered a day in the past
When I was grandma's little girl
I was wild and free
Like the Land that birthed me
Nurtured and nourished
So no hand could harm
But this one hurts
With a thousand tears
In her red widened eyes
All innocence brutally taken
When these ones are unfairly treated, how do they thrive and realize their God-given potentials? And if they are not able to realize and actualize potentials, is that not a colossal loss to the whole of humanity?
This one also makes me so sad! Inequality in humanity is a trend that is disheartening because I value justice and fairness, but this is missing in all spheres of our lives and in all cultures worldwide. How did Man become so chauvinistic, sidelining equity and humanity, rather choosing oppression and exploitation? I am indeed sad!
I see the events ongoing
How far apart the rich
Is from the poor...
Why is it that the gap remains ever
As two parallel lines?
Starvation rules the day
And many wonder what life's worth
It's really so sad
This inequality in humanity...
But this is stark reality
That they have none while others hoard,
Deprived, many from gutters feed.
All humans should be treated equally and fairly for we are all one, under this vast sky, equal rights, equal access to the fundamentals, a fair chance to succeed and equal distribution of resources. Infact I'm advocating for a World of equality, free from all the disparities that abound, not stark, dark, rotten inequality!!!
I am sad when the aged and elderly are shut away in care homes, I feel as if they are being discarded or seen as a burden. My grandparents lived with us during the most vulnerable periods of their lives because we value family bonds and we do not fail to recognize their sacrifices towards us. They are the reason we live! So the respect, care and honour which they deserve should be accorded them, these people who raise generations, deserve much much more than being shut away, to slowly disintegrate.
I remember the memories of my youth
When she once led the way
With sure sturdy steps
And treated ever so tenderly
With those hands now frail
She is not to be caged
Because she's old and ailing
Because she's slowly
Closing the page of her life
And facing the setting Sun
The hands once strong
Would lay on my head to bless
With loving memories taken
As she steps beyond the veil
I sure would be proud I loved her back
.... the same
I feel so much empathy for these group of people who represent humanity at its most vulnerable, and any form of injustice to them, is to those that are too weak to strike back, those that are defenseless, those unable to advocate for themselves, except shed stinging tears in their most secret places. And the truth be told, any harm against these, points to societal failure, I don't even care how civilized a society might claim to be.
All the pieces of poetry are mine;
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All images are my own authorship!
The first image depicts the pensive mood of my daughter the day a child-victim of rape in my neighbourhood was being taken to the hospital, I would rather leave out the sordid details.
The second image is of my parents during the Church Thanksgiving Service of my Mom's 75th Birthday. They are ageing but I wouldn't even comprehend the thought of putting them away in a care home. This is the time they need family the most!
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