We are poets <br />User of verse and rhyme <br />With nightingale throat <br />That sink song deep <br />The deaf ears of a bully <br />Angelic hand that write <br />On wall before bad king. <br /> <br />We are poets <br />We are eyes of our country <br />Mender of our world <br />Individually we sing <br />In group we are heard <br />We write on winds <br />People catch cold <br />We write on water <br />It cleanse body soul and mind <br />We write on sun <br />The world receive new light <br />On moon <br />Sweet dream of morrow kill despondency <br />Like stars we sparkle <br />In the sky people look up to. <br /> <br />We are poets <br />We are God chosen <br />To path sea with our pen <br />For innocent people to pass <br />And with pen <br />Immerse oppressors in their oppression. <br /> <br />We are poets <br />We clad love in best cloth <br />Beat drum for heart to dance <br />Its rare jocund dance <br />And give life to people's actions <br />In their importance. <br /> <br />We are poets <br />We live with our work <br />Our voice remain audible <br />Even as air finish in our lungs <br />And our throat rot away <br />We dwell everywhere <br />And in beautiful heart of men. <br /> <br />We are poets <br />We spy the world <br />At night and day <br />We write from our eyes <br />And take to our only home <br />Poemhunter.<br /><br />Alade Abayomi IdrisWhite<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-are-poets-2/
