League Day 24: OLAWUYI BLESSING vs EMMANUEL KARIBI
This duel is dedicated to all victims of the modern day slavery in Libya. Your voices are heard on this side.
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THEME: ENSLAVED
OLAWUYI BLESSING ISHOLA
TITLE: "ENSLAVED"
For of course,we no longer have colonial masters,
But clearly it is that we're still enslaved
Recently is it engraved
On every page of papers
And the top stories of news edgers
That slavery is becoming horrendous
In Libya perhaps wafting to be obnoxious.
Why must we be enslaved by our own bodies?
Is it a cheap and fast pain
To forget easily without gain
When colonialism was all that could be
Pointed at as an/a history of our existence or being
Forgetting not that souls are crying out
Yearning for nothing but to come out
To rightly attain peace
And remain in peace.
© Olawuyi, Blessing Ishola.
For of course,we no longer have colonial masters,
But clearly it is that we're still enslaved
Recently is it engraved
On every page of papers
And the top stories of news edgers
That slavery is becoming horrendous
In Libya perhaps wafting to be obnoxious.
Why must we be enslaved by our own bodies?
Is it a cheap and fast pain
To forget easily without gain
When colonialism was all that could be
Pointed at as an/a history of our existence or being
Forgetting not that souls are crying out
Yearning for nothing but to come out
To rightly attain peace
And remain in peace.
© Olawuyi, Blessing Ishola.
EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA
Title: FREE, WE'RE NOT
Free we say we're
but in chains everywhere
we're ... home and abroad
in the shackles of life
everywhere as slaves
we're bound
free we say we're but in
freedom we're enslaved
freedom, we sought it afar
many leagues we sojourn
in search of freedom
but freedom, she lies
prostrate in our minds,
in our hearts, in our veins
so nigh enclaved in us
her presence, we barely
perceive
gravely decisions we
undertake to attain freedom
yet free we're not
everywhere we're entangled
with self impelled bondage
for freedom is a jurisdiction
of the mind attained from
within
not a commodity acquired
from the world
not knowing this, in ignorance
we're enslaved.
©EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA
Free we say we're
but in chains everywhere
we're ... home and abroad
in the shackles of life
everywhere as slaves
we're bound
free we say we're but in
freedom we're enslaved
freedom, we sought it afar
many leagues we sojourn
in search of freedom
but freedom, she lies
prostrate in our minds,
in our hearts, in our veins
so nigh enclaved in us
her presence, we barely
perceive
gravely decisions we
undertake to attain freedom
yet free we're not
everywhere we're entangled
with self impelled bondage
for freedom is a jurisdiction
of the mind attained from
within
not a commodity acquired
from the world
not knowing this, in ignorance
we're enslaved.
©EMMANUEL KARIBI OBUALA
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