Monday, December 18, 2006

BARREN FIELDS

BARREN FEILDS
Why is it
that when you sit
down for your meals
you don't think
about all those empty stomachs
in the villages
which your henchmen
tease with bags of mealie meal
so that they buy your cards
and shout your slogans
in order to get their hands on them
to feed their families
that have been let down
by the sometimes treacherous sky
and their barren fields
end

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

WHERE WILL THEY BE ON X-MAS DAY?

WHERE WILL THEY BE ON X-MAS DAY

As our children
stare wide eyed
at glass cases of sweets
that their poor father's
can no longer afford to buy for them
to sweeten their Xmas days -
where will the shefs* be on that day?

As mother's patch old clothes
that their children can cover their buttocks
and their husbands their crotches
between their perforated trouser legs -

as cockroaches threaten mutiny
inside bare cupboards
faced by the beautifu face of hunger
in houses where once voices laughed
on sunny Xmas days -
where will the shefs be on that day
with their looted public funds

end
*shef - party big shots