Billionaires oh billionaires
Stop counting your stocks and shares
While the workers break their backs
You need to pay more bloody tax.
It is rather funny
That you make much of your money
From government contracts
While the poor face your attacks.
Just stop being jerks
Enjoying tax deductible perks
And resist the need
For unquenchable greed.
Give money to worthy causes
Don’t worry about your future divorces
Don’t worry about IRS raids
You might save someone with HIV/AIDS.
This is something I’m sure you know
“You can’t take it with you when you go”
So make human compassion
The overwhelming fashion.
Please listen to my gentle persuasion
And go easy on the tax evasion
People won’t just like you for your wealth
They’ll be attracted to your generous self.
It’s never too late to start
So think of others and open your heart
Do what the mean spirited lacks
And pay your fair share of tax.
O comrades here is a thought, the world may be two
some ways open to discussion-true -or - false?.
How if someone plunges let say into ocean may claim
to touch air or see star or master or find the company
of sunlight if he/she is to go through?.Oh!, yes, how if
someone gone to war aliter listen to the hustle and bustle
on let say the streets or market day or may be a world's
HIV/AIDS day?.
O comrades here I thought that both evil and good ways
are each a perfect fret, whole culture, I meant a way
of life even tomorrow?.
What new beliefs?
What soul searching?
Ha, come on, man!
It’s not a big deal.
Priests, Pundits and Charlatans
would have you believe otherwise;
They can skillfully redress these
natural occurrences into a religious garb.
Neither it’s a wrath of God
Nor an act of nature exacting revenge
for mankind’s abuses and excess.
When you wallow in mud, you get dirty
When you frolic in rain, you get wet
When you poke and prod the hornet nest…well!
God has not been the author of these
terrible events nor Satan’s payback
toward the people of God for sinful behaviors.
Plague, Flu, HIV/AIDS, Polio, Ebola, Coronavirus –
Epidemics and Pandemics have plagued and
will continue to plague mankind into the end times,
and along the way, becomes collateral damage.
Death is a part of life. It happens because of
natural calamities, accidents, wars, diseases,
violence, and mostly, man’s ignorance.
It’s a natural phenomena --- It just happens!
As long as there’s one man and one woman left,
we’ll be all right.
~05/11/21
~Contest: Your Philosophy during this Pandemic
~Sponsor: Chantelle Anne Cooke.
THE NEW GOD (COVID-19)
In the land of lightness
Emerges the world with dreams
Where the world worship their God
Living in fear and abject poverty
In the land of lightness
The Malaikahs watch with ease
As man embarks on vanity
With challenges of different kinds
In the land of lightness
The dreadfulness of pandemic controls the world
HIV/AIDS, EBOLA VIRUS, LASA FEVER,
Became gods.
In the land of lightness
Covid-19 is now the God of gods to man
Arresting the world like criminals
Sending people to the journey of no return
Aborting dreams of man
In the land of lightness
Where the gallant soldier now controls the world
Making the earth disastrous
Who knows what comes next?
Almighty Father !
Forgive us our sins
Shower your blessing like rain
Live to give. Death is inevitable, life is very short. Corona virus is real. Stay safe.
Alimi Abdulkabir's Poetry
(Title: Too Broken to Fit) About HIV/AIDS
1 What Hath Becometh of Thee?
2 Belonging No More
3 Within Fleshly Pose.
4 Undeserving,
5 Of Such Merciless Means
6 A Tainted Soul
7 Too Broken to Fit
8 Amongst the Rest.
9 A Cruel Awakening
10 Of Mercurial Fashions—
11 Immutable.
12 A Droll Living
13By Judgmental Bigots!
14 A Laughingstock
15 One Must Be.
16 Withering Truths
17 Time Stealeth Away.
18 Existing No Longer.
19 Untold Sufferings—
20 Left Alone
21 In Pensive Sequesterings.
22 A Grim Foreboding
23 Be All That Remain.
24 The Permanence of Dying;
25 Without Having Yet Lived.
Africa my mama,
Africa the baobab tree that grows day and
Night.
When I see your growth, my heart pleases.
You are the Center of all activities, oh, Africa.
You are the best place to visit because of
Your nature, weather, and vegetation.
Oh, Africa, why so rich and so poor?
HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Tuberculosis,
Many wars destroy your roots.
I will cry to see you cripple again.
Wake up and fight for your benefits.
Stand up; you are the big tree,
That can heal the neighbors, oh, Africa.
Make a big shout so your kids can rise like
The sun.
Remind your kids that you will bury them.
No matter how,
They hate and run away from you.
You are a lovely mother with full of love,
You always welcome those who hate you.
My love will be forever,
I love you mama Africa,
Moreover, Jehovah loves you too.
You gave birth to me.
I respect you, oh, Africa.
HIV/AIDS
It works everywhere
Looking for dining room
everyone is its dining
Its always knock at your door
if you opens
Its like chameleon
Slowly slowly into body fuel
streaming into it
screaming starts
Head, shoulder down to legs
Rife slowly vanished
like cheshire cat.
BY: chikondchirwa
Absolute Power
Absolute power is an enigma
He has no known friend here
But deadly dictators try to befriend him
He is a blind cannibal
He consumes parent, friend and foe
But deadly dictators praise him wildly
Like water, he has no shape
He can fit in any known vessel
But deadly dictators try to shape him
Like HIV/AIDS virus, there is no cure
He dictates over life and death
But deadly dictators try to get inoculated
Absolute power is more powerful
Than the powerful of this world
Who can tame him, but a joker!
With pen in hand
How little the world seem to me
How powerful I do feel
For there’s nothing I can’t handle
Everything I tackle
Criminals I put behind bars
Minds I sharpen
With pen in hand
I am a hero
With pen in hand
I am a legend
For my words are filled with power
For my thoughts heals the nation
For I give hope to those hopeless
For I care for the elderly
And restore respect to the youths.
With pen in hand
HIV/AIDS is history
For I encourage ABCD precaution
For I preach about abstinence and faithfulness
With pen in hand
I am your love doctor
For I mend broken hearts
For my words soothes lover’s hearts
With pen in hand
I need neither gun nor knife
For there’s no battle I can’t win
With pen in hand
I will conquer the world.
The killer beast in me
There’s a potent killer beast that lives in me,
That slowly rips my flesh apart that you can’t see.
It came to existence through reckless pleasures,
Now this life is lived to certain measures.
This killer within has made me weak
And for many years afraid to speak
It eats my flesh and leaves me bones
One day my chest will be packed with stones
Show mercy upon us beast don’t let us mourn
Forgive our children and the newly born
That you have made orphans in the care of poverty
And now they lay hungry in the arms of sympathy
And through you I feel like I’m a shame
You’ve made me anger that passes blame
You’ve turned us human like you a beast
Were we rape and murder like it’s a feast?
But today we’ve learnt to know you better
And with positive thought we’ll cure the matter
Cause together as one we will stand
To fight against your upper hand
We’ve given you the honour for far to long
And no more shall we dance to the boring HIV/Aids song
Cause all you are is just a horrible beast
But triumph will come and we will feast.
The killer beast in me
There’s a potent killer beast that lives in me,
That slowly rips my flesh apart that you can’t see.
It came to existence through reckless pleasures,
Now this life is lived to certain measures.
This killer within has made me weak
And for many years afraid to speak
It eats my flesh and leaves me bones
One day my chest will be packed with stones
Show mercy upon us beast don’t let us mourn
Forgive our children and the newly born
That you have made orphans in the care of poverty
And now they lay hungry in the arms of sympathy
And through you I feel like I’m a shame
You’ve made me anger that passes blame
You’ve turned us human like you a beast
Were we rape and murder like it’s a feast?
But today we’ve learnt to know you better
And with positive thought we’ll cure the matter
Cause together as one we will stand
To fight against your upper hand
We’ve given you the honour for far to long
And no more shall we dance to the boring HIV/Aids song
Cause all you are is just a horrible beast
But triumph will come and we will feast.
The killer beast in me
There’s a potent killer beast that lives in me,
That slowly rips my flesh apart that you can’t see.
It came to existence through reckless pleasures,
Now this life is lived to certain measures.
This killer within has made me weak
And for many years afraid to speak
It eats my flesh and leaves me bones
One day my chest will be packed with stones
Show mercy upon us beast don’t let us mourn
Forgive our children and the newly born
That you have made orphans in the care of poverty
And now they lay hungry in the arms of sympathy
And through you I feel like I’m a shame
You’ve made me anger that passes blame
You’ve turned us human like you a beast
Were we rape and murder like it’s a feast?
But today we’ve learnt to know you better
And with positive thought we’ll cure the matter
Cause together as one we will stand
To fight against your upper hand
We’ve given you the honour for far to long
And no more shall we dance to the boring HIV/Aids song
Cause all you are is just a horrible beast
But triumph will come and we will feast.
black snakeroot, yew, cocklebur, poison (ivy, oak, parsnip, sumac, ryegrass, hemlock), blister bushes, daffodil, mayapple, lilium, jerusalem cherry, indian licorice, deadly nightshade, christmas rose, bleeding heart, asparagus berries, wolfsbane, tomato leaves, doll’s eyes, the suicide tree, young larkspur, blue-green algae, stinkweed, dumbcane, european spindle, blind-your-eye mangrove, manchineel, laburnum, mother of millions, elderberry root, bacterial pathogens, exotoxins, mycotoxins, grayanotoxins, rhinovirus, chicken pox, sleeping sickness, cholera, yellow fever, typhoid, rotavirus, river blindness, measles, japanese encephalitis, hepatitis (a,b & c), cryptosporidiosis, shigella infection, pneumonia, meningitis, tuberculosis, schistosomiasis, malaria, influenza, herpes (1 & 2), crab louse, scabies, chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, chancroid, trichomoniasis, hpv, hiv/aids, ebola virus, marburg virus, mad cow disease, mudslides, avalanches, blizzards, storms, cyclones, hurricanes, tsunamis, tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, fires, supervolcanic eruptions: evidence of absence.
When is positive negative
Or right wrong?
It is when living positive
I am living positive:
Now, more responsibly
I take responsibility for all my actions;
My life in my hands
I choose life over death
Wellness over sickness
I am a living ‘positive’
Now, more rightly, living and doing
Surrounded by all that is positive
I make the best of now
Enjoy this moment, one at a time
I am overcoming positive
With gratitude for everyday mercies
Finding and enjoying beauty and bounties, abound about:
the smile of a child; the chirps of the birds
the swinging music of the street trees;
I am positive; HIV positive
I am a living witness; a survivor of the scourge
I am living, I am positive
Positively positive
I am a HIV survivor
Beyond the put down of virus
Above societal stigma
I am living, I live
Making positive, positive.
PLWHA- People living with hiv aids
Nobody admits that the greatest sin,
misleading and enslaving any selfish soul, is carnal lust;
and so inflamed by desire, it disappears into the dust...
Young people indulge in their rampant passions,
knowing no limits, and only when death becomes real,
they realize their wrong reason for giving away something so precious...
Hiv/Aids scientists are struggling to find the ultimate cure to halt this universal disease,
which originated from the uncontrollable carnal lust, killing millions and causing havoc;
and what if they turned away from it, and looked to God?
Amazing changes, indeed, will be coming from within their transformed hearts,
saving themselves and others, seeing their image in a true light;
if they were completly free, nothing would be unreachable or impossible to attain...
Selfless in our sharing and generous in our giving,
this human race, which God created from dust, must glorify Him
and not end in gravestones' rows that our children will not see....
Copyright 2009 by Andrew Crisci
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