AMBASSADORS OF POVERTY Ambassadors of poverty are The corrupt master of the economy With their heads abroad And anus at home Patriots in reverse order Determined merchants of loots Who boost the economy of the colonial order To impoverish brothers and sisters at home Ambassadors of poverty are The “saviours” of the people Office loafers in the guise of workers Barons of incompetence With kleptomaniac fingers And suckling filaments Position occupants and enemies of service Locked in corrosive war of corruption With their people’s treasury And killing their future Ambassadors of poverty are The dubious-sit-tight “patriots” Frustrating the cooperate will of their followers The beleaguered, hungry and famished Owners of land People, priced out of their conscience and power Incapacitated by their destitution Unable to withstand the temptation Of crispy mint and food aroma Ambassadors of poverty are The political elite In air-condition chambers And exotic cars With tearful stories of rip-offs Tucked away from Their impoverish constituencies Lying prostrate With death traps for roads Mud for water, candle for light Underneath trees for schools Rat for protein Fasting as food And alibi as governance Ambassadors of poverty Are rancorous elite In battle of supremacy For the control of power And their people’s worth Mowing down their own With white man’s machines Oiled by the prosperity of black patronage Counterpoised by deprivations As the corpses of their able bodied men Women and children li unmourn In shallow graves In their fallow farm lands Long abandoned Ambassadors of poverty are The round trippers The elusive importers Of unseen goods and services Sand inclusive Who trip the economy down By tricking form M For harvest of dollars as imports When their people see neither money nor food Ambassadors of poverty are The able-bodied men on the street Without motive, without vision, without mission Men fit for the farms But glued to the city Hungry and desperate Constituting willing tools in the hands Of political overlords For mission of vendetta Against political foes In their fight for power Ambassadors of poverty are Those who actions and inactions Reduce their people’s expectation to nothingness Those who antecedents Have the spark to inspire While their people lie in surrender Having been defeated by poverty Ambassadors of poverty are All of us whose in-actions Steal our collected joy Because of what we should do Which we never do As we bargain away Our conscience in the market place Under the weight of poverty To assuage our hunger And our master’s will
Posted on: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 08:04:08 +0000
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