Linda Gabriel
Would you wake up to go vote?
When you still wait on the return of 2 of your best friends who
Disappeared because they too had wanted change
What change?
They had wanted to chorus a different verse
Paint the town with red t-shirts, red bandanas and open palms flying up in the skies
Parading their pride,
Would you wake up and go vote?
When you know their mothers look at your own mother
and wish that your mother should never let you go
When you calling their mothers mother only brings pain, memories of what used to be of the 3 of you
When you cannot look in their eyes because they see their sons on you
And you see a reflection of your best friends in their eyes
When you avoid meeting them at church, when you change paths,
when you ran away from your own shadow because it’s the only best friend you are left with
When their siblings still call you sister when in your heart you know you don’t deserve the tittle anymore
Would you wake up and go vote
When chances of what your best friends wanted to change are not even there
When you know the only change is them changing cars, suits, building mansions and owning diamond mines
When the only change you know is there is no change at all
When you know that what your best friends disappeared for has changed,
The ones they had hoped would change have changed becoming just as the ones they had wanted to change before they disappeared
Would you wake up and go vote
When you have been stripped of the parts that made you whole
When you walk alone in the streets and they point fingers at being the one who survived
When you don’t want anyone to replace their place because you strongly believe that they can be replaced
And you are too afraid of losing to the fragments of what is already lost of you
How many times can one lose themselves and whatever makes them who they are
Each knock on the door, makes your heart jump, unsettles your stomach
