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'The Pen is Mightier than the Sword'

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What would I do with a koki?
As a child I would
draw all over the walls in my room
Mother called it art
Father said I was making
a mess
Disruptive.
I am simply a child,
colouring outside of the lines, the rules that society attempts to conform us to.


What would I do with a koki?
Would I write what goes exactly through my mind?
Would I feel brave, as this disguises me as an anonymous writer
The ink too think to leave handwriting
Distinguishable

Would I be like Zapiro? Or an unnamed fast food restaurant?
Drawing satirical jokes
to be criticized for criticizing.

Would I draw a Guy Fawkes mask across my face? Protect my identity as I free people
from their minds

With my koki
I would like
to colour everyone in
to remove race
But that would leave us all the same.
Equal?
Boring.
That would be worse
To steal everyone's identity. Far worse.

Would I toss my koki away?
Would I join the crowd of voiceless sheep?

What would I do with my koki?
Would I use it as my voice?
Or would I forget it in my pocket?
Leaving it to leak
to seep through the fabric

Running dry
bleeding out all its contents

Leaving nothing more than a large, black
void
What would you do if you were given a koki?
In the beginning of this year I participated in the De Beers National English Olympiad. Recently, I found out I came 70th out of roughly 8000 students.
The theme was "Secrets and Lies"

I have decided to share the second section of what I wrote, fortunately I took photos of my paper as I was handing it in.
We had to write a poem about what we would do if we were given a koki. In South Africa, our government has always been very corrupt and controlling, due to the Secrecy Bill journalists (anyone really) no longer has freedom of speech...
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ThinkingPanda's avatar
Awesome about comming in 70th.  The struggle against sensorship will never end, even in those countries where "free speach" isn't free at all.