Page 64 - Msingi Afrika Magazine Issue 26
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               Devoid of reason and wisdom.                     We all obey one lord,
                                                                Even at the summit of glory and honor!
               Where are you going from this step?              To his bosses,
               Must you trim for a meal!?                       Every single house !!!
               Wheat grows everywhere                           The woman is outside with her obligations
               But it is wrongly shared!                        Man obeys endless impositions.
               For work you get up very early,                  The two slaves are having illusion
               Without drinking often, a pot of milk.           Always own their lives
               At noon you offer yourself a little rest         While they live, stripped of everything!
               In the evening, you take the subway again.
                                                                There’s always richer than yourself,
               Subway,                                          And people to whom, survival, we owe.
               Work,                                            Help, strangers, fingers
               Dodo,                                            When he thought it was gonna collapse on
               For the years                                    him, the roof,
               Until you run empty,                             Who didn’t know about it in their tracks?
               Bout to walk with a baton
                                                                Even the one who is safe from the needy,
               Arrived at home,                                 Always looking to score points;
               The first reaction:                              A, their empire, expand,
               A quick kiss of affection,                       And his factory, getting bigger.
               Without much attention,                          On how to infinitely get rich
               And then there’s television.                     He doesn’t stop thinking!
               We forget, for a moment
               And, mom, and, children;                         In this logic, there is no mercy!!!
               Lost at Facebook or Instagram,                   Never feel sorry for anyone!
               Making them forget all the programs!             On the slopes never delay;
                                                                The more wheat we have, the more we can
               Everything is measured                           calm everything down!
               Everything is well figured out
               And, shamefully, well dosed!                     But is he really rich,
               Nothing is spontaneous anymore,                  The one who is stingy in love,
               Natural and Unconditional.!                      He who indulged in fetishes,
                                                                He who pluck the lives of others,
               And then the ring                                With sordid bonuses,
               The telephone;                                   Who, existence, gets depressed!?
               Following a long discussion                      How can one go wrong,
               Where money or manipulation,                     And have no remorse!?
               It is always a question.
                                                                Stop for a moment!
               After its back to the computer                   You are a living being!
               And mind and mind for hours                      You’re not one of those machines,
               For, others, the great happiness,                Made in china factories!
               You put in the labor and sweat!



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