#365daypoetrychallenge
#Advocacyandsocialchange
Day 2
I fell in love with these lines:
'Let your heart bleed
Let the ink float and make it stain every sheet'
Inhale!
Most times I talk while I walk
Because I'm so stuck in my thought
Countless times my brain gives up!
What my Doctor calls seizure!
Damn!
But my teacher once said "you've got to talk"
And if you can't talk
You've got to push the pen
I asked...
How can I push the pen
When I know not the powers of the pen?
Mightier is the pen
To the sword of men
Birthing liberation and salvation
When intent is judicious
Libelous and seditious
When intent is malicious
Consecrated to the freedom of kingdoms
And the faith of legions
Painting portraits of fictions
And predictions enclaved by visions
Of innate decisions
Enslaving generations unborn
With the most deadly weapon
A single creature called
The signature
Damn!
My country got liberated
With the power of the same pen
Putting the colonial masters in suspense
At the expense of the pen!
Then I knew every floating pen
Was the bleeding heart of men
Restless at heart to condescend their ideologies
Into specimen of technologies
From the tablet of our heart
To the 'micro-mini' tablets note pad I have
Then I knew what made Steve jobs
The man that saw the future
Because his pen drew him a picture.
How best can I push the pen
I asked my teacher in suspense?
He said, "let your mind think
Let your heart bleed
Let the ink float and make it stain every sheet
Like the molecules of your brain
Drawing lines and signs
Because those are the signs of a great poet.
For we are all poets grasping for change"
Miriam Etim works with CRBC TV as the
Producer of Good morning Cross River Monday show, Presenter for Youth Concern and a Video Editor.
She is a Peer Educator at a non governmental organization (HIV/AIDS reduction programme in the Niger Delta (HARPIN)
And a 300 level student of university of Calabar, studying English and Literary Studies.
#Advocacyandsocialchange
Day 2
I fell in love with these lines:
'Let your heart bleed
Let the ink float and make it stain every sheet'
Inhale!
Most times I talk while I walk
Because I'm so stuck in my thought
Countless times my brain gives up!
What my Doctor calls seizure!
Damn!
But my teacher once said "you've got to talk"
And if you can't talk
You've got to push the pen
I asked...
How can I push the pen
When I know not the powers of the pen?
Mightier is the pen
To the sword of men
Birthing liberation and salvation
When intent is judicious
Libelous and seditious
When intent is malicious
Consecrated to the freedom of kingdoms
And the faith of legions
Painting portraits of fictions
And predictions enclaved by visions
Of innate decisions
Enslaving generations unborn
With the most deadly weapon
A single creature called
The signature
Damn!
My country got liberated
With the power of the same pen
Putting the colonial masters in suspense
At the expense of the pen!
Then I knew every floating pen
Was the bleeding heart of men
Restless at heart to condescend their ideologies
Into specimen of technologies
From the tablet of our heart
To the 'micro-mini' tablets note pad I have
Then I knew what made Steve jobs
The man that saw the future
Because his pen drew him a picture.
How best can I push the pen
I asked my teacher in suspense?
He said, "let your mind think
Let your heart bleed
Let the ink float and make it stain every sheet
Like the molecules of your brain
Drawing lines and signs
Because those are the signs of a great poet.
For we are all poets grasping for change"
Miriam Etim works with CRBC TV as the
Producer of Good morning Cross River Monday show, Presenter for Youth Concern and a Video Editor.
She is a Peer Educator at a non governmental organization (HIV/AIDS reduction programme in the Niger Delta (HARPIN)
And a 300 level student of university of Calabar, studying English and Literary Studies.
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