POEMS

MY MODERN SOCIETY

-Ameboi

I live in a modern society

Of perils and incessant wars

Which question the soul’s worth

And make the Godly the foolish

I live in a modern society

Where glossy doctored magazine

Images turn women into goddesses

And lead other women into futile strife

for perfection.

I live in a modern society

Of foreign ideals which are kept

At sickening half-baked length

towing away my local philosophy.

I live in a modern society

That hates me and my guts,

That wants to kill me at all cost

but with my oblivious consent.

I live in a modern society

In which I have no president,

Paper politics and empty theatrics

Engender the leaders’ lifestyles

And the hungry me suffers.

I live in a supposedly-modern society

Of primitive and archaic sentiments

Skeletoned by jungle-justice

That is both physical and religious.

I live in a modern society

Of nudity, hypocrisy, corruption,

Vulgarity, heresy, and spiritual death

None of which you are exempted.

I live in a modern society

Where the abortion of the foetus

Of your culture’s traditions reigns

And you slowly drown in the nefarious

ugliness of it all.

PEND-AND

– Joyce

Horizons of Sadness

Blaze through these glories

Fountain heights and tower stones

Age-long of grading

And

Standards fall off

An inglorious race

Spars from battle lines

The agony of pens

Twisted, pended, running-on-lines

Times out, Pens-up

Given-up before its thanksgiving

Blanchard on poster-slates

Fates sealed in numbers

Forties a pass, fifties a cross

Sixties a shot, and seventies; a full goal

Glory days are out with

Tower place(s) in the Ivory Coast

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