They are playing
The music of death,
We are dancing
The dance of life.
Our impoverished skins
Are in need of salvation.
Their hoodlums
Shoot big guns,
Their megaphones
Label them "unknown gunmen".
We,
The underdogs,
We are hugged
By their stray bullets.
(C) Chidi Anthony Opara
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