Where Do We Turn When Humanity Fails

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Where Do We Turn When Humanity Fails

- December 25, 2017

Keep the arrows in the quiver

And the bullets in the bag

I had danced to the booming of thundering guns

I had jumped to the melodies of tragedies

There is nothing good bout bursted brains

Bout broken bones and burnt barns

Keep the lions away from the seats of discretion

I had sat with powers around the negotiating table

Embraced the grammar of excited pessimists

Blinked with hope and happiness

At the promises in the wisdom of great orators

There is nothing true bout the lies told with conviction

Their selfishness is a curse

But where do we turn when humanity fails

When all the weapons in history are rendered impotent?

© Olatuja Oloyede