Our Daily Bread
Give us our daily bread . . .
We shall not mind if we
Have a daily milk,
Neither shall we take offence
If we have a daily butter to match.
Who amongst you will give his child
A stone if he demands for a bread?
Who amongst you will offer her child
A serpent if she request for a manner?
Legion ,they are today in the globe.
Who is holding down our daily bread?
Who is hoarding our daily milk?
Who is selling our God given freely manner?
The men with Capital in all our capitals
The men with the tyrannical order of Capital
The men enslaving us for more Capital
Even in the nooks and crannies of rural towns
As hunger and poverty hovers round the cities
Even amidst unprecedented Capitals.
The more we gnash our teeth crying for our
Daily bread given by Jehovah Jireh
The more they replaced it by daily stone.
The more we complain of hunger to Jehovah
The more they laugh at us and replace our
Daily bread with splotch of taste and famine,
For they known we are springy to sufferings.
The more we lament of the men in Capital
The more they turn our daily bread to serpent
Striking us forcefully even in hunger.
The more we beg of them for Capital
The more they kill us for surplus value
For their fiendish drive for more profit .
Tell the men at work to beg no more
Tell the men in Capital we shall beg no more
Tell the men at work to arise and unite
And stop them and their unending lush luxury
To forge ahead to the barricade and
Seize the mace off the corridor of their hands.
Then ,only then, we shall experience hunger no more
And our daily bread shall be “tead” and “buttered”.
Alayande Stephen .T
16th of April,2006
6.30pm
Conceptualization of the sufferings of the masses
All over the world in the hands of the ruling Capitalists
Despite the abundance given by God. Demanding for workers
Solidarity throughout the world to overthrow this endemic Capitalist system.
Copyright © Alayande Stephen | Year Posted 2006
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