Corrupt Governments



Rich and pompous, Idiotic to the core
 Educated illiterates all alike
 Avarice and greed their main goal
 Claim to leadership as kingship throne
 Hook or by crook they rule with iron
 Coup d'état, guns to rape
 Rigged elections, falsified result
 Sorrows, tears and blood
 They share to their inhabitants
 Swiss accounts dots their lineage
 Their satanic seat left to rot
 Ancestral gods watch in disdain
 While people die in hunger and pain
 Who will save the plight of them all
 Prophets of old, revolutionist not found
 Gone are the days, when we fight and win
 Fear grips all, to shame and lack
 That's what African governments have become
 Military and Civilians alike
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Submitted on October 09, 2013

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Roland 'KingShip' Ediare

I'm a man sold-out to The God of JesusChrist...I preach Him in & out of Season...-I I love life, laughter and being myself...I'm "BRASH"; usually not a 'respecter of persons'...I practically speak things as they are with a pragmatic intent. ...And I'm usually Very PASSIONATE about whatever I speak or do...lol ...Regarding my poetry: I usually put on a character and a subject that I'm passionate about...It brings me close to deliver my passion as the real characters would feel...As close as I can get if the 'subject' was me....someday 'Beyond the Sky' will be my reach. "Deo Volente!...Please Enjoy my poems, most of them are quite deep; so when you read try to get outside 'The Box'; because ...I write from outside the box...And Remain Blessed. Then before you rate Google the meaning of unknown word, you do not know it all...How do you fault what you do not understand...the burden of understanding is never on the giver of information, but on the recipient...Anyway thanks. more…

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