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chumfin
chumfin
Apr 07, 2010 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

SPEECHLESS!!!


“That dream only needs a speech to bring about the change the world has been waiting for, never be speechless no matter what; you have something to say...”

 Felix Joseph.o

 

    SPEECHLESS!

 A feeling contends to conquer me

Perhaps, I wanting to defeat it

Indeed, my irritability of the obvious

My contest to make it plain, baffles me

My best try,

 Fry me to cry

Helpless my mouth

It cries echoes is speechless

 

When truth mutates to odium

Falsehood applauded as in a stadium

Avalanche of wrongs

Beaten into a compendium

Corruption celebrated in ovation

Justice, yet foreign in a nation

In reckless abandon,

The games rule is impunity

Flaunting absurd rights as immunity

Shame like a name

Honored as fame

 

Speaking the more

They have colonized the peak

Your audio, print and visual ranting

Concludes you an ant

A pens ink, as tears

Their brick hearts, quickly ignores

What then unlocks their hearts mystery?

Power emitting from the army’s canon?

Perhaps, the pens might

May cause a rethink

Yes a reflection amidst the stink

Confronts all loudly

 

Speechless is the act of the feel

Yet, still I dare to make a speech

A speech for my compatriots

A speech desiring a change

Yes! A speech to propel the speechless

Am speechless, yet not lacking in speech

Speechless is all it makes me feel

A speech can break the chains

Being speechless is not a gain

It germinates pain, like rain

 

Speak and rule the peak

Roar to unseat the freak

Shout and alarm the weak

Sing a tune, their hearts will break

Cry, your tears may cajole compassion


Yes! A speech ushers the change

The villains abhor a change

Truly, a speech moulds them speechless

A speech a world desire

Lacking in speak, all backfire
yet a speech will save the day?

why speechless?
just a speech of  change will unveil the dream
yes! a dream for real change.

 

 

Author: Felix Joseph Osaeghemede

[email protected] ;+2348037825027.

 

Written:1-05pm-1-25pm:  10th-06-2008.


— chumfin, Apr 07, 2010

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Country/Region: NGA

Favorite Poets: KinG DaviD Psalms, King Solomon songs, maya angelou, and all the great poets i have ever meet.

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xena465

xena465

16 years 2 months ago

If only more of us would

If only more of us would stand up and be counted and speak, perhaps the world would be a better place chumfin. I'm one of the speechless. I don't even vote! I'm never sure who would make a difference for the better, so I tend to step back and leave it alone. Wrong I know, but that's me...SPEECHLESS. Superb write. Rosina xena465
chumfin

chumfin

16 years 2 months ago

that speech or action can save the world!

dear Rosina, lets be active with our dream for a better world or we might not have a place to call own world again. climate change , politics and many more issues, we must never be speechless, say something.. the world is waiting for you. you vote counts a great deal for this world to be better., vote wisely. thanks for the comments. chumfin
M

magics02

16 years 2 months ago

I agree Chum

Yes it is a speechless poem and a good one. I found it a little long but nonetheless boring at all, kept me reaching for the ending. I thought about this line number 8 somehow I got tongue twisted with it, It cries echoes is speechless should or could it read better as.. It's cries echoes are speechless.. I am not sure and I have to read it out loud again. and then this part Perhaps, the pens might May cause a rethink Yes a reflection amidst the stink Confronts all loudly Somehow I stumped upon this one, maybe its too late for me to read it and as tomorrow comes I shall return when my brain is awake a little better. You know I am just giving an honest feedback on your poem friend and you may change or not to change, it is your poem. And it is good Love, Mona xoxoxoxox
weirdelf

weirdelf

16 years 1 month ago

I applaude you, sir

this is a poem of grand passion and belief. Yet what does it actually say? Certainly it accurately portays most people as being ignorant victims of false media coverage. But what is the true media coverage? and when you say Roar to unseat the freak do you mean Obama? Are you calling him a freak? Perhaps you are afraid, from the reception of your earlier fundamentalist christian poems to be more explicit. Perhaps you believe, like the KKK that the black man is the son of Job and forever cursed? I respectfully submit that all this is not clear. Cheers, Jess, Reprehensibly irrepressible
chumfin

chumfin

16 years 1 month ago

you views i respect!!!

jess this work speaks for it self, the way you approach it will determine how you understand it. dont get confused here respect your president, i was never refering to MR PRESIDENT.you just did. thanks for reading, lets leave it the way it is , cos i may not want us to go back into the trenches about this.thanks for reading anyway. chumfin
chumfin

chumfin

16 years 1 month ago

nice meeting you

blackqueen( if you don't mind) thank you so much, i really appreciate the great comment and finally the God bles you prayer, i love it and appreciate you. am very glad you cam on to read this piece. God bless you really good.
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ngaioBeck

16 years ago

Speechless

Great write. "Beware the masses that they once find their voice. Marcus Aurelias