Can't Enjoy (Cor) Poem by Margaret Alice Second

Reading political schmaltz: South Africa called
the great pride of the African continent, its past
has been overcome in freedom of enlightenment,
it's more advanced than its African counterparts,
but its progress rested on slavery thus it was an
unnatural development, freedom lets it revert to
take its place as a 3rd world country where life
ought to be stopped immediately in order to

Heal its embattled people - Africans should learn
to rejoice in their beautiful being & scorned tribes
how to delight in African origins - no longer being
forced to imitate Europeans by their previous evil
regime - free to enjoy the illegal music banned by
the governing hypocrites; but alas, a slew of new
leaders, blind in greed & oblivious to the need for
work, health & education, unable to focus -

Usurp the wealth, aided & abetted by the tender-
preneurs, BEE is failing; growth in Africa used to
be based on colonialism, now we learnt to reject
middlemen who take more than their share while
corrupt officials take more; our politicians ignore
the future as if there's no tomorrow, there won't
be if the disillusioned destroy the country in

Desperation as the rich feast incessantly not even
leaving the crumbs for the masses - and then they
will destroy what they can't enjoy…