Tears Of The Dying Species Poem by Aziz Baako

Anytime I am in the gray side of my mind
I think about the kind of world
We will be living behind.
I think about the headlines in the news
I think about the Politics and Religion,
I think about Freedom and the likes of him.
I think about the year of birth and tears of death
But what intrigued me the most is the Dynasties
Of Men in Power.

Anytime I am in doldrums and I think about
The Political Parties, Gangs and organizations
Dominating the headlines.
I think about the Freemasons
And the Security Council.
I think of organizations
Like CHECHEN SEPARATIST,
JAISH AL MOHAMMED, ALQUAEDA
And so on and so forth.

What are they fighting for?
Is it The Policies? Is it Ideology? Are they the terrorist?
Or just people like Freedom who would do anything
To defend them selves when suppressed?

I think about the laws and their effect.
I think about the rivalries between parties
Between nations and between continents.
I think about terms like terrorist and nuclear
And when they entered our dictionaries.
I think about the UN. EU, AU
And all the other U’s that spell unity or union.

It feels like they are just in the front for dubious
Reasons, I don’t want Freedom to know about
This, but has it ever strike you that the political
Parties are also gangs?

Well this is just my thought.
It feels to me that they are a group of families
At a certain height in the social ladder
With like interest who invest in their ability to rule
The few voiceless people wandering the streets.
These are just my thoughts anyway.
I get so confused
When I think about the last names
Of people in Power like Kabila and Kabila,
Bush and Bush, Yademah and Yademah
The repetition is amazing.
And the system is still call democracy.

Could it be the reason
For the evolution and revolution
Of opposing groups? I mean groups
Like HEZBOLLAH, REAL IRA. ETA
TAWID W’AL; JIHAD.

Could it be the reason why dudes
Like Freedom are so angry
At the system? So hungry
That they will address the President
As if they have nothing to loose?
Asking question that would end
Them in Jail? May be just a May be.

May be it is people like
Freedom who grow up and form
These groups called the terrorist.
Or May be they are the followers
Of the groups that the troops
Are hunting in the dessert.

It feels like that sometimes
I don’t know what you feel
Though, but these are my feelings.

I feel depressed about how
The twenty first century
Is full of the depressions
Of lost wars and violence, with industrial
Greed taking advantage
Of the unfortunate situation.

It looks like a big lie when
I think about who starts the
Wars, who funds the wars,
Who manufacture and market
The weapons?
It feels crazy when I think about
who repairs after the damage is done.

It feels like a blame game
Sometimes, it feels like
A network of friends with
Common interest and are bent on
Creating the wars at the same
Time trying to prevent them
But this is still only in my naïve mind.

But wait a minute, have you heard
Of JAMAAISLAMIYA, ELN and FARC?
What do you know about them?
Is it what the media says about them?
Or is what they say about themselves?
What do they stand for?
Freedom stood for his right
But lost the fight.
Could they be in a similar situation?

What if the reporters sides
With a side? What if the
Governments are controlling
The media? What if theses groups
Are friends and playing games
With our minds. Yes I mean
If Bin Laden and Bush are friends?

What if they conspired to put money
In individual accounts after the wars.
I am scared of what the truth is.
If it turns out that it is all a game.

What do you think will happen
To the world?
What if all is one big setup?
From the assassination of Archduke
That sparked world war one.
To the Iraq and the African wars.

I hope I don’t provoke Freedom, but
In Freedom’s continent many are dying.
The effects of colonialism
Is still in full effect.
The youth are still hanging
Cheap second hand clothes around
Their hollow shoulders.
The graduate are still migrating
To the Western cities.

This is what life means to them
And this is why Freedom is angry
With the President, this is why
He will go the extra mile to reside
In the home of the ‘Dead President’.
This is why he is not replying my letters.

When I think about the situation in
RWANDA, SUDAN, SOMALIA
LIBERIA And recently KENYA
I wonder how much the devil
Is in control of this world.

When I think about how many mothers
And children have lost their lives
In these atrocities, it confirms to me
How much money the gun factories
Are folding in Africa, How much
The media makes in Freedom’s continent.

Does Human race think they can cheat life?
Has humanity forgotten the rule
Of cause and effect and sometimes
Even repeal effect?
Look at the response of these actions.

‘A group called the DAGGER MEN
Emerged from nowhere and did
What they did.
Incidents like the DEADLY GAMES
Surfaced, The SIXTEENTH STREET
Incident came to pass, the OKLAHOMA
BOMBING did its bit in the news.
AlQUAEDA crushed the WTC
And THE PENTAGON.
This is the effect of the Leadership
Of our current crazy world’.

When these events unfolded
The Earth growled in pain,
Rage clouded the way people think.

The streets remembered the horrors in
Seeing AMERICA burn,
God witnessed souls moving
With broken dreams in the
Skies of NEW YORK city;
This is a crazy puzzle.
Tears of the dying species poured.

Revenge flew big boys to
AFGHANISTAN and Teddy
And many young men
Lost their lives there.


Then the Iraq drama erupted.
Is it an oil war or weapons
Of mass destruction?
And if it is oil
Does IRAQ have to pay with oil to
Refill LOUISIANA wet land?
That is what it looks like.

Violence has engulfed our world.
And the gulf is fueling it.

The effects of these actions consumed
The city of BALI. It took Indonesia
By surprise and strangled the London
Underground train in July
Who says it never poured?
Tears of the dying species poured
Everywhere on the surface of the earth.



Despair of the Displaced Person Series 2008