CRY THE BELOVED COUNTRY

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Cry the Beloved Country

The air is choked with hatred

the land is peopled with charred bodies

hearts are rendered in mournings

smarts of wounds lynch innocent heart

the moon is shinning with dark shadows

the fields are bathe in green blood

the clan is dimmed with silent elegies

heroes are scorned to silence

women are scythed into parts

children are marooned in the deserts

love is fled from the land

The aged are suckled by the teenagers 

the teenagers are buried by the infirm 

tears gush in our street gutters

cameras click at horrific scenes

the news is littered with heart breaks

the soul is alienated from the body

death looms the land as angels become demons

the wholly spirit has departed from the Lauds of the land 

the crown is left on empty heads

the subjects are murdered in hearts

while critics are gone on designed exile

the poet has become a praise singer

he is starve to sing

The court is buried in favouritism

as the media become a silent watch dog

the musician has forgotten his note

his songs no longer rhyme with the rhythms of the land

a cow is a human, a human is an animal

death is his watchword, starvation is his end

the Kings Court is littered with sycophants 

the king is impaired to the yearnings of the clan

life becomes a shadow left on the palms of death

we die alive or live in death

either ways, the difference is in where we come from

the land is condensed with tears

and I say to the poet

Oh! Cry the fate of the beloved crycry

@ McJolly 2018