Impaired! Not dead!
This is to thee that I call father,
Mother, sister, or, shall I call thee son?
Thou art alive, not mourned
Not graved! But shelters beneath the sun!
Make not depression, your constant song!
Impaired! Not dead!
Lost the vision, not the head
Thou hath missions, the future has read
Listen not, to the societal hurls, you have heard!
Leave not hurriedly, out of this sad earth.
He is impaired, not dead!
She has lost the vision, not the head
This is to you, the society,
Whose civility is severity.
Why have you made tyranny, the song before his sleep?
And, squeeze out fluids, from her retina
That fails to weep?
Please! Sing no dirge to her living soul,
And barter not her soul, with your battering sole!
Impaired! Not dead!
To you, o friend, orphaned
by your dead eye.
Believe!
For alive, the dead, came awake
And fruitful, after famine
became the barren lake
It wasn’t what an eye saw
But what all eyes saw
When, the dead eyes saw
To temptations, and intimidation
Never! Should you fall.
Saula Sheriffdeen Olamilekan, identified by his pen name as Salam Bhai is a Nigerian poet for the voice of peace, humanity, and anti-racism and discrimination! He centers basically, most of his works on human and the problems affecting humanity in the society, of which discrimination plays a crucial role!