Volcanoes: A Dormant Scream of the Oppressed

A social commentary and a powerful protest poem, by Shernaz, exclusively for Different Truths.

there is this scream
dormant, suppressed
in the collective psyche
of the oppressed  
 
there is resentment
that gnaws furtively
at the edgy endurance
of an always empty belly  
 
embers burn eternal
under the vestiges
of torched freedom 
and slaughtered justice
 
they form the mush,
in the magma chambers
of potential human Etnas
and latent Mauna Loas
 
Devastation! Untold devastation
when tectonic shifts occur
and molten fury explodes
distraught humanity’s brittle crust 

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