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I carry my burden alone:

This bulk of poverty

Enhanced by war and debts

Outsteretches my decimated muscle.

For i took my green flesh

To the shark-guard

At the door of economics.



He comes to rescue me'

Gives me some perks

To fund the acquisition

Of milk and honey

To improve my balance diet.

But i was wrong, his perks

Have holes and a chain of gold!





In this hole i am swallowed

And the golden chain

Chains my golden years.

My desire of a slum-free city

Is expunged from my resolutions

Diary, for starving men

Can`t afford rent.



Yet, i dread throwing a stone

For i live in a glass house.

I fear the wink of his eye

He still holds

The pursestrings i wish

To unknot, oblivious

Of this blaring destiny.



So we build cities of mud

Towers that in the short

Whirlwind of the savannah

Break down.We spend the nights

In the cold, smoking the acrid

Air of our maternal economics



And the crown of civilization

Is worn by this

Human-induced wretchedness.

I hunt for the ostrich plumes

To cover the gaping holes

Of this land of shades and shadows



Yet the horizon stretches far

Beyond the green stretch of

My land.He comes back

With sifted grain, tugged with

A golden brand and value.

That's the grain i threshed!



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I shall come to my field

To toil with the plough

And hoe, in sun and rain.

Fertilize the hard crust of earth.

And if i have to,

Harvest from red hail!



Do not grief, kindred

Hold your tantrums

Till i am orientated

To the handle of my pestle

Grinding the grain in the mortar.



And to the quiet evening

We trudge in to reclaim

The bright smile of the moon.



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The wise kin`s blood is there

in you, in your shadow.

He is romping

with his insatiable desires.



Beware!

Beware!



He will beat the drum

He will blow the trompone

And wake the owl

From the sleepbed

of her dark siesta.



Speak your mind

Vomit all

That chokes your voice

Have it echoed

On the walls of Loiborsoit!



Speak against injustice

Perpetrated by greed

Of profilgate men.