Corporate Liability - An Effaced Identity Poem by Onkgopotse Ramatiti

(A poignant poem by a young man trying to make it big in the corporate. All his inputs are sidelined and crushed all the time and his ideas are being stolen for which he never receives any accolades. He feels that good fortune has deserted him and embarks on a soul-searching journey, to find himself at the crossroads of his future. Basically, he feels that he is being made redundant and he is simply crying out for recognition. All excuses point to the 3-P company: Policies, Procedures and Processes - The killer on the rampage! ! !)

Fed up with the limiting factors begotten by the politics of the corporate world
I pause and ponder
Maybe it's time for a fresh new start
And when everyone tries to advise me to use my head
I wonder
Isn't it time for me, for once, to follow my heart?

When critics sarcastically referred to me as a bookworm
I pacifically laughed it off as I knew I was cooking up a storm
But now that my empire is built
Naysayers can all ash down in the fire of guilt

A spitting image of my father's; I can't hide
God Bless his handsome soul
With take-after precision-tendencies from my mother's side
It's time we popped open those stories untold

This monster, I studied through distance learning
And got to sit in brainstorming with the Big Dudes and stuff
Being an ex-gangster, I marvelled at the impressive legit earning
Yet to date my inputs remain not good enough