POEMS FROM DEADLY ENDING SEASON
"I am the mouth of the people
speaking for their rights,"
you boast on the screen
last Sunday night
but your system is borrowed
your knowledge not yours
you were taught by those
who hate our-
col-
our
they-made-you-what-you-are-
and-give-you-
pow-
er
so you like Great Britain
you like America
you like Europe
and you like Russia
you preach on sundays or
praise Allah in the Mosque
you speak Cambridge
you speak Oxford
you boast Harvard
in rhetoric
the people you say
are so happy
while starvation and drought plague the whole country
and you talk about yourself
and your big mansions
but what have you done
for the people you were asked
you skipped that question
with your favourite mask
went on about yourself
no questions could be asked
you hypocrite!
you hypocrite!
puppet of the west
selling your people
to look your best
tell me!
tell me!
tell me right now
why you borrow everything
when the people can sow?
and why the population
must live to bow?!