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