POETRY

Consensus Voice

By Odimegwu Onwumere

This voice is heard

with words

transient against nature.

It wants me

to look

at the world

but will not be allowed

to say anything.

My voice have become

a voice of misunderstanding

because of the wind of change

it carries

for the emancipation of transparency

and not sycophancy.

I know that

what is hidden in the dark

must be revealed

when it is light

and

this consensus voice

will be discomfitured.

I am afraid

many people dance the music

of this consensus voice

even when they know

the music is

without a rhythm and a rhyme.

This consensus voice shall melt

for the people to see

the memories of uprightness.

People are aware

of

this consensus voice

always roaring

in the crowd

but not innocent.

Foolishness is dangerous

than death

and this is the character

of this consensus voice

that wants many of us around

but not to sustain us.