Elie Wiesel – Voice that awakens the silence by Emeka Chiakwelu
Our hero that refuses silence to sleep
Injustice in silence cannot prevail
Silence cannot be allowed to be normalize
Silence is indifference
Indifference is perilous
Let not his simplicity make you think silence
There is nothing about him that is simple
His history is not simple
His words are not simple
His sense and sensibility are not simple
His anger thicken when silence prevails
The generation that refuses to see
But they are not blind to reality
The apparent reality cannot be the truth
The generation that refuses to speak
Dwells with noise to silence
His generation of silence cannot be silent
Our hero comes, he listens, he speaks
Refusing to be bitter
Refusing to be remorseful
Refusing to fight injustice with calumny
For with justice he pillows his head
The thunder that shaken the silence
He speaks not only for the forgotten Jews
He speaks for gentiles too
Speaking for downtrodden
Speaking for the Tutsi
Speaking for the Igbo
Speaking for the Blacks and Whites
Speaking for God’s people
Speaking for all that are enslaved with silence
Yes you were right
“All Rivers run into the Sea”
Rivers can dry, sea cannot be watered
Understood not then, understand now
Shalom be unto Jerusalem
With peace in Abraham bosom
By Emeka Chiakwelu, Afripol’s strategist. www.afripol.org info@afripol.org