Arms Deal. Poem by Black Consciousness Poetry BCP

They are dealing and dealing while we are dying and dying. They make the guns and sell them to us to kill each other while they are making more, keep killing each other, while they keep making weapons and ammunitions, it is good for business, when the demand is high the supply will increase the price will rise and the profit will increase, so they say. It's not personal its business even though our bodies lay cold with holes of bullets we have no idea how they are made.

Like guns, they make laws, laws they enforce, that's how they can make you weapons biological, weapons chemical, weapons nuclear, weapons agricultural and blame it on you for using them when they armed you and forced you to use them against yourselves. With these laws they justify themselves for killing you, for putting you into prison and for doing many inhuman things they do. They are innocent and you are guilty, they are making order in the world in order to kill you in precision, especially you the rebel, especially you the revolutionary, especially you the terrorist, especially you who can think independently and oppose what they are all about, especially you the audible and talking the truth that needs to be unknown to their victims.

They make more guns and more laws while many pray and become more devotional, they make the earth hell which it already is, but now becoming unbearable, they are the demons in it but they demonize you, and make themselves your savior and their murderers in uniforms angels, with codes of conducts and swoon oath to the law, they will carry out their duty without question. Remember slavery was legal, remember you were equated to animals, remember when they took your land and the lives of those who resisted, yes remember that all of this was legal, it was right according to the law, just remember that all this like what Hitler did and many of his kind was all legal. They are dealing and dealing while we are dying and dying.

That's one of the chief reasons why Africa has more guns widely distributed than food, a reason why a lot of us are armed and yet hungry, that's the reason why they are caused to kill each other while the wealth of their continent is ripped from beneath their feet and their people more impoverished and exploited. War is business and we pay the price. If you do not find yourself in the picture, you do not have an idea what In the world is going on. They are dealing and dealing while we are dying and dying.

|HF Swarts|