"You and I Won't Fight"
Oluwagbenga Abiola@oluwagbengaabiola322369
11 days ago
“You and I Won’t Fight”
You and I won’t fight.
We are the silence trained from birth,
Obedient to chains we now call peace.
Suffering is our freedom,
We hug pain like a childhood friend.
When light comes, we turn our backs,
For darkness is familiar,
And familiarity feels like safety.
Our owners wear agbada and smiles,
Drinking palmwine with our future.
If we ever raise a voice,
They'll serve our blood on their plates,
Toast to it with laughter,
And call it progress.
We can’t win.
Not because we’re weak,
But because we are not one.
We are names,
Tribes,
Tongues,
Each protecting his gate
While the mansion burns.
You and I won’t fight.
Not the real war.
Because we still think survival is enough,
And unity is a myth.
We chant slogans with empty stomachs,
Paint placards with borrowed hope,
Only to kneel by dusk
Before the very hands that slapped us by dawn.
Revolution is a dream we rehearse in whispers,
But fear holds our tongue hostage.
The last man who shouted truth,
Where is he?
Buried beneath hashtags and forgetfulness.
You and I won’t fight
Because we’ve learned to laugh through pain,
To dance in chains,
To smile when the master feeds us crumbs
From our own harvest.
They call it democracy,
We know it as organized robbery.
They say, "Go and vote!"
We know they’ve already crowned the thief.
Our children are born with tired eyes,
Carrying the weight of a nation
That taught them how to kneel
Before they could walk.
But maybe,
Just maybe,
If you and I look past our tribal fences,
If we stop arguing over names and gods,
If we remember that pain speaks the same language,
Then we will fight.
Not with fists.
Not with guns.
But with unity.
With memory.
With refusal to bow again.
But until then…
You and I won’t fight.
We’ll scroll.
We’ll sigh.
We’ll wait for another saviour
Who’ll wear the same crown,
Sit on the same throne,
And sip the same blood
From our broken backs.
Written by @oluwagbengaabiola322369
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