| Africa! Mournful Rage! |
| Africa! Tin roofed mud lean-to’s Perched on garbage hills “invisible’s” surround cities Brightly coloured robes Over barefooted bodies Wait in clinic line-ups Africa! Suffering! Diplomats dine joking With corrupt leaders Elbow to elbow Drug moguls connive Dumping old poisons Experimenting with new Africa! Cradle of life! Red Moon crater scenes Savannah villages dusty Manna from the sky Food, outdated drugs Trusted to women’s care Dosed death to all Africa! Pit of death! Human guinea pigs Line pockets of greed Dieing of AIDS and TB Buried in lime nameless "But, there are so many" expendable experiments Africa! Inhumanity Injustice like bile Fills me with mournful rage! Africa! amb©sep/2005 |