John Sensele Poems

I hear my voice screaming
I hear my brain dreaming
Society has gone berserk
Responsibility elders shirk
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Today I may mumble and stumble
Tomorrow I may fumble and grumble
But if my effort insists and persists
Demanding and commanding I unclench fists
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Poverty in slums and gums stinks
Avarice in ivory towers clinks
While my distended belly cries
Cos all your promises beget lies
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Blackboard surfaces I rub
Unsure if viruses I scrub
Putting my family at risk
Cos for the greater I whisk and frisk
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For a while we played great
Till to my surprise
I realized you envied the prize
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My culture is maternal
The linchpin of our succession arsenal
Where maternity is fact
While paternity makes little impact
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Smash down walls of division
Where in prisons of division we deliver derision.
Erect transparencies of common purpose
Uniting to tap our common human resource
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Many thanks I failed to say today
Died in fears I felt on this day
I made up my mind to express gratitude
But fell short because in the way stood Attitude
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Go wonderful wish
To the society that upon you poured scorn
Assigning to you the fugitive fish foraging in the dish
Where indifference and interference blew the horn
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I am weary of African politics
Playing geriatric gymnastics
Cossetting peripheral preferences
Rather than reality references
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