Space in A Cage

When egos come clamping, on egos
inside the fluff of men ephemeral
One must let out if the other is unyielding
and find space in a cage, to fly, to be,
to act - as one is suppressed.
if one cannot tune the clouds
one must learn to live beneath
ears, eyes and hands tire out eventually
iron rust, consciences sways,
only being alive will see to it
for ideologies of man last as man
many others will be thought of, rise and die
In the while, find space in the cage
space, to space in the cage, think and see -
how wicked a heart can be, feeble a mind can feel

For we who are not as bold or popular
whose death will be a passing fart in the wind
must stay cowered and proffer solution such, os-
we who empathise and feel your pain and shame
hope you are free one day even in that cage, os -
we who sympathise and feel your pain, ashamed
hope you see the space in your cage
Till then live, even in that cage, till you are free,
all prisoners of differed ideologies.






For Omoyele Sowore






By
Victor Samuel