THE SOVEREIGN

THE SOVEREIGN

Free me, free me and free me

Freedom, freedom and liberty

Ideals that we sing constantly

From these shackles of oppression I

Pray ye release me

From the grips of slavery unhinge me

In earnest and in truth, the death

Of fraternity I rebuke, the

Lack of equality is disrepute

The voice of suppression

Must be silenced, the aura

Of depression must be muted

Even if by outright violence

Set me free!!!! I beseech thee

Let me breathe because currently

I suffocate beneath ye

I crumble under thy tyranny

Please!!!! Free me.

I have cried out for a long time

I have banged my gong from

The early days, from the smash of 1789

To the bleat of 1949

I echo in the distance asking…

No!!! Begging for leniency

Clamoring for audiency

At the very least bare decency

The decency to hear me

To listen to me plead

Won’t you listen to me?

Oh you mighty bureaucracy

Even you thy distinguished clergy

Won’t you give me a chance to plead?

Won’t you water this seed?

Can you give freedom the chance to succeed?

…………………………. Words!!!

Words, words and words they fail us

Because that’s what the politicians use

To drag us under the bus

After greed and power they lust

But hark!!! The brute of justice

Comes to free us

From the walls of Bastille

To the chariots of Egypt

Is crushed, bashed by the force

That liberty entrusts

The will of the people

Is the oxygen, is the fuel

That makes oppression rust

Your time is nigh

Victory is in the horizon

The freedom that followed Napoleon

The joy that engulfed Mandela Nelson

The Grace that followed Christ

This is a force that you cannot fight!!!!

This is my plight

Freedom!!! Freedom is my right

Freedom!!! Freedom is in sight.

A Poem by Bruno Edgard.

INTO THE CASKET

INTO THE CASKET

Into the Casket I insert my hands,

Into the lapse of life and the death of time,

Like a glass that is devoid of sound.

Bony knuckles continuously hold my shoulder,

Pulling me closer, deeper into the abyss,

An abyss that is void of chapter,

And I hear only voices……..,

Voices of laughter that fill my head,

Wherewith the voices scream and

The angels lie and wait………,

Waiting to see whether I will

Succumb to dread.

Into the Casket I hold my head,

Firmly squeezing my ears so that,

The noise does not transcend

An infinite domain is all that awaits,

Do I choose the straight line or the

Rough edgy bend?

I dance with a paradox that I cannot deny,

Firmly clutching my hands I tread carefully through the dark,

Then a light flashes past my drowsy eyes,

It is then, it is then

That I realize that in life or in death,

It is hard to choose sides,

Do I relinquish my flesh?

For a fire that cannot be extinguished?

Or does my logic deceive me?

Heaving!!!! Screaming that it has all the answers,

One thing is for sure, in this abyss

Fear is but an absurd mystery.

A, by the way…………..

For I have nothing to fear because

In darkness there is no fear,

There is only BLACK!!!

So into the casket I drown my sorrows

And excavate my joy,

Sin is nothing but an empty decoy

And the Skeletons!!! The skeletons

Sing connotations of FRESH BOY!!!

In this debacle I continue by

Waltzing through the deep corridor,

I do this knowing that I may never return….

……return back to where I came from,

Thus I float idly around until I notice

A small dimple of light,

At first glance it fills my formless structure

With fright, then might, then…plight!!!

At the end of this deep dark tunnel is light,

And so a thought crosses my mind with flight

……….Maybe, into the casket

I will find my REDEMPTION!!!

  

A Poem by Bruno Edgard