Touch My Blood
Touch my blood
to feel a pain
of fighting a centuries'
battle
Feel my hands
to experience the
excruciating resistance
of fearlessness against
inequality
Watch my mouth
as it utters
unequivocal truth
against exploitation and
neoliberalism
Capture my red eyes
as they penetrate
structural injustices
and systemic persecution
Escape
from my milieu
as I repel away
racialism and torture
Keep an
audible silence
as I smoke out
loaded questions
supposing to trap
and incarcerate me
Watch
your behavior and
tone when you speak
before you label me
a barbaric communist
Save
your degrading
working conditions
for your children
in your quest for
self enrichment
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Submitted by nkululekozon on January 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 659 |
Words | 111 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 5, 5, 4, 4, 6, 5, 6 |
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