Urban Song

National secrets administered by oaths, Public speeches written as songs, A country where milk and honey flow, The Acts paragraphs in the constitution, The amendments altered as by-laws, Grafts defining corruption, Devolution dissolving the vice, Civil protection, military offensives, Territory demarcations, Land ownership grabbing a nation, Stepping down pending investigations, State officers taking vacations, Laws, ethics and civil codes, Bureaucracy Administrative structures, News Propaganda the Media departments, Painting the Coat of my government, Lower House, Upper House Our House, Political greed, The People’s needs, Public eye, civil society bodies, Seeing Evil deeds branded Innocent, That is justice the way it is, Living in Harmony with peace, The ignorance of the elite, Separated by The middle class, Tolerating the low class ingenuity, The tribunals, judge’s Supreme Court’s decisions, Mass action movements, go slow demonstrations, The police   extrajudicial killings, Disappea

I went in for lack of a dime, poverty made me prisoner, But in here am rich of words, now I write my story, On these prison walls, I spread that story, Even these prison warders cannot stop me, Though walls are crooked and my script is not in line, My poetry will come out so clear and fine, And will live on many years time, Even as I watch that clock travel in circles million miles, Time will not erase my writings on these walls, My memory is full of light like sunshine lighting my mind, On these walls I cast the shadows of my thoughts, Using these words to escape reality, Break these chains that bind me, Happiness the freedom that I desire ,