My Lord, may i?

As a witness
Can I speak as a child?
Not to disagree
With an elder
How rude it’d be
Purge my guilt
Disagree with the army
Of the accused
Witness the filth
Speak a word
Of threat
Only a word
Of woe
To stir
To deflate
The accused
Should an elder be blame
For a child’s loss of air?
I disagree not
To be understood
On record
My Lord
I state not a threat
I purge this witness of filth
I fear to lose my tooth

Victor Oyedele