Mistress Expedient

Should greed or ignorance wear blame? That Africa once sold her kin Years ago she traded huge pots For the satisfaction of a plate of food Her gems she gave for painted steel Sacrificing her bed for a one night stand I heard she pulled her tortoise from it's shell And drank the thought of a better home Her green serpent preferred the mud And bore a grudge against green grass Her coconut craved a mango tree And her sun called for the sky at night She killed her hen to seek more eggs And collected milk in exchange for cattle. She slept with many borrowed beliefs Betraying her husband and her ways She spread her legs for convincing men And each dug deeply to make her weak She opened her bosom to greedy men Who sucked them dry and left them sagged Crown her the promiscuous Mistress expedient For she sold tomorrow to buy yesterday By: Adams Elizabeth Oyarese Lizdiamond Poetry World