Sh(o)ut it out

Shut it out.
Shut out the noise!
All this screaming and shouting
These calls for peace are flouting
The code for noise pollution
While people die
Their screams are deafening
Louder than the bombs that blew their homes and worlds to little bits and pieces
What peace?
What harmony?
When a piece of land is the reason a man can shed another man's blood

When a woman's screams are inaudible where violence is an everyday occurrence

Stop this screaming

You're waking me from my reverie

I'm numb and want to spend a moment of solitude with my dreams

I've closed out the pain and you should too

What freedom are you talking of?

The whole world is a game of chess and we are merely the pawns in an everlasting struggle to dominate the chessboard

Take it like it is

Be silent and don't utter a word or let a sound of protest escape your lips

Be stupid

Because stupidity is its own reward

Millions of your money are being spent to make the 1 percent richer and richer

Drown out your poverty

Your inability to have one square meal

It is no concern of mine

Let me have my tranquility

Israel and Palestine

From car bombs to land mines

Children screaming from the pain

Of shrapnel and the missing person from what was once a family portrait

Stifle their screams

Because that's what the world leaders are doing

Let no one be answerable

Because a genocide is just another page in our history books

Shut up!

Shut up with all the whining of equal rights and human rights

What right do you have to live or love?

What right do you have to an education?

Your voice has no place in society

Nigeria

Your children don't deserve to be treated as children

They don't deserve an education or the right to even be considered human

They are witches and should be denounced

Pour oil down their throats

Silence their voices in the very churches that you sing praises to the high one

Uganda

It was always Adam and Eve

Not Adam and Steve

Never mind that Adam and Eve had three SONS and it was on their shoulders that the rest of humanity came to be

No one heard them screaming "Where are the women?"

No one should hear your screaming that it is love and not lust that you propagate.

No one is bothered about the science that aims to try and understand why it occurs in nature so rampantly

All this noise is messing with my brain

It thumps and it hurts from all the incessant sobbing that I hear around me

Stop.

Stop the noise.

Stifle the sounds of your rifles and your crossbows when you take down the last lion and elephant to ever walk the earth.

Hit them swift and quiet so that not a sound escapes their once-powerful jaws and trunks

If the animals don't go and the groaning forests do not disappear in entirety there will remain no place for the rest of us humans

We have inherited the earth and all it's natural resources

Stop with the fake sounds of global warming and depleting coal and oil deposits

The earth has been around for millions of years and will stay for millions of years more

You, fortunately, will not last the turn of the century

Stop with your campaigning and your policies that demand change in the way we treat the environment and each other

This noise will not be tolerated and will be met with the silenced muzzle of a licensed assault rifle in the name of national security or personal safety

Or you will be called a traitor to the religion or the patriotism that sets the rules for your existence in your country

Stop.

Be quiet.

Speak no more.

Campaign no more.

Raise no voices in protest.

For it will always be silenced.