DANGEROUSLY ON SABBATICAL; MORALITY Written by KEMKA S. IBEJI


Love's all lost and peace estranged

Friends are suspects and trust's gone

Agreement now seems perfection

Such article of impossible existence

Our part of the sky trembles collapsingly

It's a moment near doom and desolate 

Our fun rests, feeds on pretence 


Death has lost meaning, so has life

When man's spirit dies and he lives

It's best to say it's a living being 

That's an organism 

That we call it man still is misappropriate 

No man's without spirit of worth 

And the worth is human life's value


We're self-dehumanized killing our kind

Our humanity leaves us forthwith 

Our remains are of beasts thereafter 

We may look human but aren't 

Not anymore once we kill our kind


What's man or what's woman?

Old meaning vanishes away 

But the new's unknown yet

All we knew we know no more

All we search we knew never before

But knowledge has lost its character

The character that changes not

The image of sameness all times 

Everything indeed is changing

Changing even most rapidly


Oh morality!

I thought you were objective

I thought you were universal

I thought you were innate

I thought you were engraved

But what has humiliated you?


Our world needs hope, vigour

Some tonic to morality

Perhaps it may be awakened

Do we say resurrected? 

Its death's dangerously unimaginable

If for anything

Let's lend it our pieces of life

That it may live for us all

Just let morality be alive again 

To exist out there, independent of all

Its firmness and truth to establish

Its justice to grant and preserve

And humanity to preserve forever

Comments

  1. Unknown9 October 2021 at 22:27

    Indeed, morality has vanished. The core values of the society are now taken for granted. Things that hitherto were eye sores in the good old days have become the order of the day presently. What then shall we do? For "Our world needs hope, vigour,
    Some tonic to morality,
    Perhaps it may be awakened,
    Do we say resurrected?". This calls for a collective effort. All hands must be on deck to restore sanity and pure morality. Nice piece, full of lessons.

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