BY GLORIA O’KOYE
Gradually replacing glass windows
Over mosaic bricks to make it
More, ‘presentable’
Declaring
It’s a stepping-stone for greatness
When it’s a demolition of
Generational footprints
To make properties
Become more ‘marketable’
Each monument that shines bright with the nation,
And sub-culture
May be tainted with some flaws
But doesn’t every famous structure
Have hidden secrets
That is revealed after centuries
Decades
Years
Had passed on?
Gardens thriving in communities
Are being take down
After awhile
Delicacies
Across the globe,
Getting shut down,
Replaced
With chained frauds
Sold families dreams
Without inclusion
The root of evil is seeped into their eyes
Displacing
Displaced folks
In different intersections
Disregarding the impact
Of mixing up postal codes
Is it better to say?
‘Get out!’
Than to passively
Raise the costs
For unwanted kind to move out?
Attracting a type of class and up
Heap of assets on the front porch
Was it really worth?
Selling out?
Is the outcome?
Really worth
Pursuing the cause?
Colonization
Never died out.
It only evolved!
Mastered in the craft
Of shape-shifting
We must outrun
To win
And never let them
Catch up at all!
No more
Switching up the game plan
Without acknowledgements
Partake and demand
Everyone be part of it!
We must stand up,
And defend
They
WILL
NOT
TAKE
UP
ANYMORE!
