Black Road



Whenever they say
"this land is rich with gold and silver"
I say never!
This is just a black road that leads to death and poverty.
Because every road you take and wherever you may go,
You will find corruption.
Beautiful Africa and wondereful Africans,
What have became of us not to choose
the deciduous fruits of the spirit?
but deciding to pick up the desired of satisfactions that leads to corruption.
Both lads and leaders,
Where did it all go wrong?
Sheep's no longer knows and trust their leaders,
Because it's always the hyena covered by sheepfare before elections and this is not fare.

Our sisters are being raped by the interviewers and silenced by the job opportunity.
An old men behind a young woman is totally an unforgivable sin,
But they don't give a damn and feel a shame,
It's clearly they are cursed.
So please God, please us.
Sacrifice these men's to be crucified for this corruption to end.

Community is in humility without humanity,
Incompetent candidates bribe to complete high risk infrastructures.
Bridges keep on falling apart
and car accidents keep on rising above.
Black roads full cracks as if there was an earthquake.
And yet,they say it's us who take this country backwards,
Whenever we burn what is already damaged.
They forget,what goes around,comes back around.
If our needs were met and their promises were kept,
We wouldn't strike and starve.

Enough now! bring back the land,
we want to make peace with it,
not to take a piece of it,since it's highly pissed.
We will never forget what happened
to the food parcels that were meant for poor people during covid-19.
How can the rich and real men steal from the poorer?
The one and only hand that feeds them.

These people are liars,these people are betrayers and they all need prayers.
Gender based violence will never end,
while the polices are accepting the bribes
from the suspects to get released
and come back dangerous to us.
Even the places to report coruption,
they're are corupt as if they are in witchraft.

When will we learn if we deny the learners an opportunity to learn?
Students are complaining,
Some are throwing the towels and
some are throwing themselves from the towers.
This has to stop,have mercy.

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Corruption

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Written on August 19, 2022

Submitted by sonkanyezi88 on August 19, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAABXCXXXCDXDX BXXXEF BDXXXXXXXX XXXGBAX XFXXECB XXGDB
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 2,203
Words 434
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 14, 6, 10, 7, 7, 5

Sonkanyezi

Lindokuhle Buthelezi from KwaZulu Natal in in the township of Vryheid. Started poetry in 2010 till today and am still gonna write many more poems. Dream is to spread entertainment and edutainment globally. more…

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