Revolution

He who seeks his now life

Shall lose his next life

For without the shedding of blood

There can be no revolution

This is not about dying

It’s about dying to live

It’s about looking up and

Beyond the decay that

You have been forced to endure

And seeing the life you adore

Within your reach

Yet, out of reach…

A life which bleeds value

Will lay intense pursuit

Behind the curtains of blood,

Of the things which give it worth

And though that life don’t wanna die

Yet it will not profess a lie

It will stand and stare death down

Rather than take a bow

That life will never stop giving

Though it’s got nothing left to give

That’s the life

That sparks a revolution

That the life

That can’t witness corruption

Even if it dies

Its seeds sprout a million lives

It cannot thrive in slavery

It will not strive with drudgery

What it wants it fights for

Cause that’s what gives it worth

A life that looks beyond death

Because it’s stronger than death

That’s the life not scared of revolution

That’s the life that liberates a nation.

Akpan