League Day 23: ADEPOJU BABAJIDE vs BRENDA MARTHA

This duel is dedicated to all victims of the modern day slavery in Libya. Your voices are heard on this side.

NOTE;
1) The judges decision takes 70% of the judgement while well wishes and lovers of poetry votes takes 30%.

2) Upon no circumstance must any of the above mentioned poets vote.

3) The contestants are urged to invite friends to Vote for them using the comment section of this post. No rule exempts you from canvassing for votes.

5) Voting lasts for 18 hours from commencement of Duel.

6) Vote using I VOTE POEM 1 or I VOTE POEM 2

7) Results would be uploaded briefly after the closure of votes.

Good luck to the wordlords.. LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!

THEME: ENSLAVED

ADEPOJU BABAJIDE

TITLE: *ENSLAVED*

Darkness of ignorance illuminates your soul

Light of the sunup passed away gradually

Mean truths are bitter in your ears

You are enslaved

In your father's house

Walls are for geckos that smile

Through the broken walls of truth

And photos are not on walls

But on beds of shame

You are enslaved

You have not spoken in the language of dreams

And you have not swam in the reality of those dreams

At the snap of your fingers

And you lie on beds of clay

You are enslaved

Where is your home

Is it located by the Niger

Or by the broad leaves of the Mississippi

Like the angels studdard needed

You should burn for them

©ADEPOJU THANY BABAJIDE

BRENDA MARTHA

Title: ENSLAVED

Bounded in chains of silver, 

Dragged like rotten carcass, 

Out in the sun, roasted, 

Waiting for the rightful price. 

Is it the color of the skin, 

That puts value on a human head

Or is the blood beneath dark skins

Less red than any other skin color?

Like a royal rubber stamp, 

Color has branded us permanently,

Labeling us the 'backward' race.

Greed for money and power, 

Burns the human soul black

Making one see money 

Over another human soul. 

I repudiate these chains, 

That enslaves my brother, 

That degrades humanity, 

A barbaric act in times of enlightenment