Born With Voice

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Born with voice

Of course yes we’re born with voice

Remember the time you’re born

Never stop looking back now and then

We all were born with voices

Indeed, this is our reality

Truly, our voice is our reality

However sometimes our voices can be stolen

Voice your voices my friends

Or reclaim it when it is stolen

It is your own voice

Combine your voice with others’

Eliminate all injustices

I am neither a snob

Nor am I a dodo

My voice is my source of power

Yes, with it I was born to win

The voice that all know

It has never had an alibi

It is with me day and night

My voice the weapon I came with

I don’t like to sound like a spiv

Don’t mistake this with braggadocio

Yet I am surely one of the literati

My voice makes me feel heroic

My voice is indeed my existence 

This book is for victims

Yes, it is for victims

It is about the victims

It is about their fates and plights

It is for rape victims

It is theirs

Wherever they are

In whatever conditions they are in

In whatever countries they are found in

This book is theirs

This book is dedicated to the victims

Yes, victims of various vices

The victims of sexual discrimination

The victims of gender exploiting

The victims of cultural deterioration

Yes, this book is theirs

It is theirs wherever they are

In whatever conditions they are in

In whatever corners they are in

This book is theirs

It seeks to give them voices

This is the book of voice

Yes, the book seeks to create voices

Voices for the voiceless

Voice for all those whose voices

Were stolen

Those in silence

This book is unconditionally theirs

This book is my contribution

Yes, it is my contribution

Yes, the contribution to the plights of victims

Of whatever experiences and crimes

This book is a victim’s book

Yes it a victim’s nook

This book is but a prayer

It prays for cessation of causes of wars

It prays for the revolution in archaic cultures

Yes, the book is an eye-opener

The book is an ultimatum

Yes, an ultimatum to the world

It is but a world forum

It seeks to build the bond

It seeks to create a rostrum

The is rostrum is the whole world

On which to address the conundrum

The victims have always faced

This book is a vexation

For others to come forth

Yes, it is an admonition

For others henceforth

To come and add on

Yes, we can’t maintain silence

We can’t keep in on with ignorance

While the victims are suffering

This book is about the voice

Yes, it is about everybody’s voice

It seeks to rise up the voices

By making logical noises

It calls upon voices

Yes, voices of voices

To come and make the case

For various victims

The book raises the voices

It wants victims to be given voices

For they were born with their voices

So they need their voices back

Adapted from my book Born With Voice