When Does Fear Surrender?
| Ghana 2022
turning windows into walls
doors into slaps of concrete.
painting rooms
with the colour
of fear.
a vacuum of terror -
terror that goes beyond these walls
impacting those,
we are told to be feared
yet
inside these houses
built from lies and deceit -
sitting along those tables
are people
whose
ignorance is dripping
from the corner of their mouths
creating puddles from which
political strategies form -
strategies disguised as
the ‘ song of the people ’
words polluting the mind of a nation
to see the other
through shades of
corruptive thoughts
putting fear in places were
once was
humanity
the same voice that has placed bombs in other countries
shouts now proudly
a hymn of nationalism
filled with promises
only they
can solve
trust.
creating trust
is the only common ground -
on which political power can thrive
but when does fear surrender and trust become an illusion?