If Peace had a Voice

Sorry i’m not sorry we traded glory for shame 

Sorry I’m not sorry for being addicted to pain 

Sorry I’m not sorry to be lost in the moment 

frozen moment where words are too heavy for an expression 

In a moment where we crash down with no precaution 

Blood for the blood for the war no emotions 

Piece by piece till all left are ashes  on our streets

It was you it was me it was us it was soldier it was war it was more power less for the poor 

It was why border they’re not part of us 

It was blood on every corner 

Blood of innocent daughters 

It was pain flowing like a river 

It was war knowing no borders 

Yet war bordering no others 

It was war for no reason 

Fire for the victims 

Victims for the soldiers 

Soldiers for the leaders 

Leaders just for power

Power pull the trigger 

It was a minute of click likes and hashtags 

Then a lifetime of families all turn apart

It was carrying wounds bleeding with no healing 

It was prayers lifted to dark ceilings 

It was politics, ministry of education for a nation where half it’s population are drawn back to dark ages

School turn to ashes, war own the pages 

It was guns fired at babies

Reconciliation a business treaty 

They laughed at the way we cry 

Making more money from the lies published on tv

It was you it was me it was us it was soldiers it was war it was more power less for the poor 

It was mother’s drowning in a moment 

Moments cursing and trampling 9months of endurance beauty and love 

Moments of sons turning to monsters.

This  poetry is not enough to walk you through this genocide of punchlines 

Where my nation more than trapped in a pandemic die in persistent conflict 

Drop the weapons and live as one family.

Sorry I’m not  sorry we traded glory for shame 

Sorry am not sorry for been addicted to pain

That moment liberty freedom was traded for politics 

That moment my poetry bought a potion from your notion call it freedom of expression!

So yes! it was you it was us it was soldiers it was war it was more power and less for the poor 

#EndAnglophoneCrises in Cameroon 

#StopTheKilling

#ILoveCameroon