Seized tears

These blizzards wreak the songs of togetherness
through the night all sounds are unheard
but the songs of the razing fire thatch I felt
the noise of the striking axes passing through deathless
spirits, bumping flies that missed their path
I can hear the songs of agony,
render by their sleeping spirit
beclouding the lids of my eyes, my hands
shivers as a stroke of canvass spited on my heart,
an unbearable cloud passing its enchanting chasm
so much pain, seized tears paints the picture of my frame.
(c) 2020 Martin Ijir

Soul and the body

The soul doesn’t rest the body does
like the wrens the soul sings
music to the creator
Why then say rest in peace to a soul
when the journey became unstressful.

In joy does the freedom of the soul
occurs from the stained soil of the skin
the soul recall its body memories
using the experience to form new notes on lyre
may my body rest to free my soul from this hell
(c) Martin Ijir 2019

Art as Raiser of the Dead

Art as Raiser of the Dead
Fredrick Nietzsche

Like faded waves, so art inclined
Subliminal memories in ornamental vase
A monumental hewned from stone equates
A sculpted dust. A continuous creation of worthy verse
A devotion to an enlightened spirit.

A preservation of endless task of meditating
In return the departed spirit dance in joy
As many read the lines created in simple form
A soul is raised out of the grave of thoughts
As am found immortalized like a ghost of loved one visiting in a dream.
(c) Martin Ijir 2018

Nelson Mandela: An ill Hero

Nelson Mandela has indeed liberated South Africans from apartheid regime but has not liberated them from the shackles of capitalism. South African working class and peasants are suffering immensely because he sold them to capitalistic approach of the view of the economy. He has imbibe hardship to them as of then till now, and which they will continue to experience until true revolution occurs. He has all the tools to liberate them from economic tussling posed by the few as when he was the president of south African but I wonder why he did not do so according to the blueprint maybe he is suffering from myopia attitude of what his goals are, seen it from rearview. Maybe, the corporations that control the economy of South African back then threaten to imposed financial sanctions through their agents by cutting trade relationship with others foreign countries mostly caucasian who are pulling out back then and deceiving him with financial grants and loans to service the economy. He erred, he could have nationalised all of the company in order to reminisce what they did in the past. Apartheid lesions are so deep, sharpeville wounds are never will never be forgetten then why should he deviate from the masses. He let his emotions to outrun the masses will. If truly, he was a liberator, then the spirit of revolution suppose not to be quench like that of Mao. I wonder why should he be tag a hero when he did not safe the masses from suffering modern day enslavement called capitalism which till now is more of apartheid. A true hero supposed not to bring freedom to the people but to find it among them which is to free them from all ramfication of life; he did the part and left the other to who why? The work of any revolutionary is to execute the revolution. Though he has liberated them but he is an ill hero.