Look What I Found Poem by philip mtange

I found bondage
Which fills the lives of men
With misery and distress
And floods their dreams
With tears and anguish.

I found submission
Which fills the lives of children and their mothers
With passitivity and compliance
And binds them to a life which they abhor
With all of their hearts.

I found fear
Which stifles the souls
And the hearts of the brave
And places them under the domination of the tyrant
Who uses their strong bodies and weak minds
As instruments for his power.

I found bitterness
Which causes the tongues of the oppressed
To curse and lament
Whilst hiding behind their plight.





I found misery
Which resides beside despair
In a home filled with miserables
Living as criminals and dying as
Despised and rejected non-existents.

I found slavery
And emptiness
And distress
And in all these
I saw perpetuity
And the vicious power of continuity.