Humanity locks down
O Eclipse of Humanity!
The World locks down!
Spectrums of Death!
The Sun has vanished!
Darkness is everywhere.
The agonizing silence.
What could be braver than freedom?
The solar ages are suspended.
How to chase away your fears
and awaken your dreary anguish
to put humanity in quarantine?
Subtle tricks and strange plots;
arise in the spheres as enigmas sowing doubts and disarray,
Can they fill your soul with tears?
The world without hope, dark as a ghost in the night,
Resembles our deadly nightmares.
Confinement, may be the dwelling of the intimate space of your being.
Naive without believing it.
Ignorant without imagining it.
Submissive without knowing it.
Ruined without wanting it.
Where do you see the danger then?
Safe shelters!
Now you are held by ritual, fear and threat:
rumors of death are waiting eagerly!
Blood, sweat and tears!
Pain and sacrifice.
Are you less manipulated and less controlled?
Are you free or adjusted?
Arrogance under all the heavens breeds revolt;
Move on without hope!
Is it your destiny?
It feels comfortable to escape!
But where? The borders are closed!
Couples are intoxicated in monotony.
Separated lovers languish in distress and melancholy.
O forced solitude! O solitude imposed on humans!
Overwhelming enslavement!
Beliefs overflow us like pouring rains.
Anger rises in you, alas!
You want to live but darkness keeps vigil on the
grieving spirits
You hear nothing more than the reign of Order!
You quit
The dreams
that occupy your mind clash where authority persists.
Duties are
more oppressing than cyclones.
Resistance
and servitude are opposed in a hand-to-hand war.
We have
reached to the invisible wars of Humanity!
Do not
defend yourself from your own sensitivity!
A logical
explanation: accept the control.
Unavoidable
duties, and without duties no authority.
No dominance,
no functioning of the brains.
But
without being yourself,
no love
under the sun,
no dreams under
a night of shooting stars.
Leave no
one the right to impose solitude on you.
Forced
solitude, monitoring solitude kill love and freedom.
Do not let
fear conquer you.
No love
without freedom to love!
Your life
must express your own aspirations
You cannot
settle down in lands with crooked truths
Unjustified
injustice makes even the bravest of men dread
Finally,
one breaks the will to clear out the brains
From
consciousness and mind.
By Kama Sywor Kamanda (Le monde se confine)
Translated
by Charitha Liyanage