Short Beneficiaries Poems

When victims of world 
           Injustice system 
Speak the truths about it , 
Beneficiaries of the system 
Always laugh at them. 

August 25/2023...

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Stakeholders" cartels, oligarchs are beneficiaries of corruption.
The people and the institutions are occupied with their interests.
Corruption is the main cause of the economic wrack and ruin.
Honest people end up on the gallows.
In Pakistan Honesty is the worst Policy....

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Today, I was missed by a bullet
fired by a sniper in Syria,  
a runaway train 10,000 miles from it, 
and every swing of the 
Grim Reaper’s scythe in between. 
A repeat of so many days 
of good coincidences.

Life is but an accident of time and geography,
we the beneficiaries of a random amnesty.

Tomorrow, I shall rise 
and raise song unto the vaulting blue 
for my privilege of sun....

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In this wonder continent
some come with eagerness
singing liberation songs
to distressed souls tortured
in their hands light shines
in their hands, candles are seen
in their hands torch of life flickers

Let them settle down on stools
light, candles, torch disappear
and all the way through
keep busy lighting shadows

They ask the beneficiaries
to harvest from the light
cast by shadows of  charity
Here in Africa...

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On this day, I think of those
who gave it all for a cause,
answered the call to duty and service.

I often wonder, what compels one
to make such a profound sacrifice,
how to quantify such bravery.

Those of us, the beneficiaries,
must honor them in remembrance,
our requisite duty to those who have fallen.

We must conduct ourselves in a manner
that honors their sacrifice,
show pride, patriotism and appreciation,
for this, we owe them all!...

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WORD FOR TODAY: PATENT

Ideas and inventions have commercial value if packaged as a PATENT
The document legally prevents any unauthorized use of the CONTENT
Many inventors have been plagiarized because the attack was LATENT
Pirates usually have subtle ways of stealing ideas; they hide the INTENT
Harsh reality is these beneficiaries of others’ sweat are INCOMPETENT
Registering trademarks, ideas and inventions make them quite POTENT

© Wole Popoola 2016...

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