Shame On You! Poem by Mary Mc Creath

They are coming from the US and elsewhere,
to our beloved Karoo.
Government contracts are a plenty, a 30 day bill
will soon allow for this.
Hundreds of square miles of shale underground.
Jobs for the poor, not likely.
Gone in four years leaving devastation of farmlands,
small holds, rivers and water table.
Hundreds of poor villagers will have no drinkable water
to nourish them.
Water that brings disease and ill health will be left behind.
But who cares, they are only the poor of the world? And
Governments need to find money to function.

Have you no conscience,
You the mighty nations of the world?
Does profit drive you so much
that you would rob the poor
of their main source of clean water and arable land.

Have you not conscience,
government of South Africa?
You betray the very poor
you are called to serve.

SHAME ON YOU! ! !

Have the poor of our land
not suffered enough at the hands
of the rich and greedy and from all kinds of
exploitation?