Decadence Poem by Margaret Alice Second

What can the West expect from the African
continent when the West used its powers
to suppress instead of showing the respect
they insisted to get from those people they
demeaned; using the indigenous for slave
labour under the whip of religion & refined
oppression - while steadfastly refusing to

Accord them the status of the independent,
self-governing intent that flamed in African
hearts, & when freedom came, in a settled
compromise, decadence was the name of
the game since we follow in the footsteps
of former communist Russia, dreaming of
independence in a pre-industrial - even

Pre-historic - African continent…