Dark

It is dark! I could not see I grasp on the night and I held on to objects that I know not of so tight Dark! I hear strange voices from afar but I see not their faces Because evil is upon our land and darkness covers so many places And our knowledge is limited because we live in darkness Like the colour of our skin Our heart is like charcoal and we are blinded by selfishness and greed And we hinder ourselves from reaching the ultimate goal We are consumed by hell's fire Because we have decided to trade our soul Like the great hunter that sets a trap for an antelope It is dark and he is caught by his own net because he lacks He lacks the wisdom But one day we reached the cross road between darkness and light And good and evil We met angels whose skin were as white as snow These men of ivory have seen the light And their eyes shone like the sun Oh! see how it glow And they exposed us to those alien ways And we cherished those good old colonial days Because our minds were dark Our ivory brethren soon depart and left us to take charge of our fate and again Greed and selfishness Consumed our thoughts and these brought corruption, decay and rot It is dark and the more we try to be like the creator The more we met our destruction Why conceive the monster of Frankenstein Capitalism is like a wild fire or a flame that burns a corpse on the funeral pyre When it is unguided it will burn its maker And the corpse will one day bury the undertaker Doom looms! And the whole world should be warned For in a 1000 years from now Great poverty and corruption will be reborn The dehumanization of the entire human race While the rich and the powerful will migrate to a safer place To a planet which was once desolate and deserted While our beloved earth becomes a hell and there nothing these dark minded ogres can not sell Animals and planets are all extinct except for the man made mutants The genetically created Dolly was a sheep and there is no use that cloning should be debated it is dark and I have nothing to eat And I try my hands on suicide But I can not cheat Death! And eat jelly fish for supper How long will we suffer? It is dark and capitalism rules Africa becomes a market and a land of great fools Where foreign made trash are dumped like heaps of sand And the future is turned backwards by the hands of man It is dark and natives never try to think Listen carefully to me my children may be what I am about to say will sink It is dark! Gold is plundered and taken away from Africa And diamonds are sold for under valued currencies It is dark because we have let mundane things take control of us We destroy the delicate balance of nature for the sake of profit So that we can create a ladder of status and wealth we take for granted the best things in life Such as the fear of God, happiness, love and good health