The Earth Lords

Boundless, the breathless desert

Summons each grain to a voracious feast

Lifeless the grasslands lay scorched to death

Voiceless the spirit of the sand

Places a curse of fury

And a notice of banishment

On the sons of the sun

Soundless the hooves drum

Ordained to posses wherever it treads

For the soils are theirs

And the fullness thereof

Sparkless will the skies be today

For the swarm shall graze

Be it blood or foliage

Heartless the Mbororo raids

For milk is thicker than blood

Bleats esteemed over a deathless childish babble

Worthless a soul is to beef

Mindless a graze is claimed

Under the ruthless watch of violence

Another night yet another songless dirge

The Devil's Bride

I do not understand

Why the sun had to rise

In the chilly dawn

Why the moonlight is here so soon

The stars taste like sour grapes

And the morning

I may never see again

I do not understand

Why I have no choice

And years could not

Bear me witness

As age raped the

Voice out of me

My heart baked so early

I do not understand

What I think I know

How evil births righteousness

And dogma stampedes logic

Even if the sun will raze the earth

The young petals die so quickly

Withered in the heat of doctrines

 They all merry in this fog

As the lion comes for the cub

His finger my wrist

The knuckles on my chest to suckle

Tonight will the sea pour into the dam

Yet I will not cry

For the law I shall poison

Ploughed

Like a land readied for a planting season

So do I feel cultivated

With seeds of celebrated afflictions

I carry a scar of identity

Carved by this brutal sculptor

My infantile pleas ignored

Verdict tradition had passed

Cursed be the blades

That dug fierce furrows on my face

For a crime of ancestry at conception

My face a papyrus for cursive hieroglyphs

Now I revile the mirrors

And ignore my reflections

Am comforted by my shadows

Every day I rue the ridicule

The pathetic jeers and stares

At the graphs plotted on my face

Six dual lanes on a human cheek

Slices and cracks

Civilization came late

For this eternal mask I must wear