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the cock has no teeth or tongue

first things first,the cock can't testify
for the creator crafted him deficient of these
and though lied upn,and ravaged with injustice
his rite has been denied at birth

then when the pepertrators are brought forth
he can identify,but not confess their deeds
for such a society where the tongue is uprooted
and all accounts die in fear,or silence

or when the brutality is inflicted upon him
and the deliverance of justice is self-mandatory
he has no voice from his subdued chord
to the forces of savage sovereignty in the society

he has no opinion or audible views
to the poluting policies of greedy law-makers
nor has he tenacious teeth to spur an attack
and seize in his jaws,what is his

2
when the cock is put in the cockpit
he has no tongue to plead his innocense
for the scene of the murder has been manipulated
by the crooked jury,and the con judge

then injustice infests the earth of the land
that ends in the garroting of the innocent dumb
when the guilty one is shielded with immunity
but the cock has no say in national matters

the cock sees the political catastrophe clothe
by the cameleon camoflage of dirty democracy
that makes the accused vindicated of sins
that later are rubbed on the silent parties

but if one is given no tongue at birth,
and is born to the community of the maltreated
that see truth hidden in their eyes
but their lack of tongue,traps the truth

3
the cock has studied in the far east,and west
and attained the towering knowledge of truth
but when it comes to the tongue he lacks
the most that he can do is to crow

the cock has earned him-self doctorate honours
and spent years studying in lands away
but when it comes to the authority of a statement
you cant give man the birds wings

the cock has passed through tough hardships
and has put his ears into full utility
but when it comes to expressing those views
the society has silenced his firmness

the cock has flown over the seas and oceans
and has come back to vestigal irrelevance
for he is the servant of the breaking dawn
than the authority to control the morn

4
the cock is headed now the gallow-way
for these crimes are pinned on his mute mouth
and the real sinister ones are scott-free
because they know his fatal deficiency

but from where is a tongue to be grown
or tenacious jaws scattered with canines
when the nation has oestracized and sanctioned
the fair justice of the tongue and teeth

of what opinion are mute scholars
whose brains are unfathomable in thought
yet whose message are low on words
to spark the revival of a dead community

then when the professeurs are hand-cuffed
because he is the cock of a noble civilian
i think all institute of learning are a  waste
since you can't give to a man a tongue

7
but there was a certain cock born in this era
whose tongue was removed by such a society
who never wants the guilty to plead their guilt,
but for the innocent ones to suffer in the plight

so suddenly now it grew another  strange tongue
whose speeches are inscribed with salivary ink
that tables on the tablets the woes
which the havoc of silence is spuring the more

and its teeth are more aggresive than enamel
to delve in the democratic scene a deep inision
that shall forever leave a maine,an dagger
to the ones who have oestracized every tongue

then now as it flows,feel the silent grief
every eye can glare but cannot speak
until a cock has finally found a link
to expose somehow what it may'st never say
— emeka ozurumba, Jan 14, 2009

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Region, Country: Nigeria , abuja

Favorite Poets: christopher okigbo, wole soyinka, gabriel okara , odiah ofeimun- john keats, p.b shelley

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yenti

yenti

17 years 4 months ago

The title

and the hiding of the true identity as you are forced to do, has put a piece that carries so much, into a no one reads catagory. To dare speak out in words of real people would only maim their ways. Thank you for writing this piece as it must have been hard to do. It needed to be written on seperate days, and the story would have held more people to read it, there is not much I can say as I am not there where you are, and sometimes we here can only read of these things and then it is hard to feel as you do, Yours Ian.T