By Gift Odeh
The agony of pain in beauty
This calls for attention and care
How can agony and beauty relate?
How can pain and happiness collate?
Yet, there’s no attention paid to it.
It hurts me to see how people suffer
Individuals, worthy and true, struggle to get through
We rise, we fall, still we strive to rise again
Through experience, trials, temptations, victories, pains; you name it!
Such encounters shape distinct souls.
Power has been abused
Authority manipulated
Law defiled, obeyed only by the less privileged
Money has risen in power
Yet the economy remains poor
The land grieves
The people cry
I hear the voice of sorrow
I see the picture painted with grief, agony, regret, and pain
Attention! Attention! Attention!
Time to rise and make a change
The rich get richer
The poor grow poorer
Yet the rich live in insecurity
While the poor sleep not in fear
But in worry for the future
This is a call to all
To see the pain hidden in beauty
And find the cure
In togetherness and love
Pain in beauty…Â
