THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA
THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA
Just like the sun dies a million deaths and
Resurrects every morning, the same way the
Aborigines gives birth and dies un-noticed
Discriminated, hated and ignored
Aborigine of Australia
Cursed
Blinded by trachoma, a disease as old as the bible
Preventable and with a known cure
Poverty ridden and disfranchised
No proper housing or clean running water
Burst sewers are now wiping them out
Chained to their death beds,
By the affluent white
Aborigine of Australia
Cursed
Diahoerra to the soils
Malaria to the soils
Cholera to the soils
Typhoid to the soils
Aborigines to the soils!
Aborigine of Australia
Cursed to the soils
Once happy hunters and gatherers
Reduced to despondent creatures
Soon, they may become the subjects of
Sydney museums
Poverty and dispossession
Diabetes, deafness and gastroenteritis
Has now finally crippled
Once happy hunters and gatherers
Aborigine of Australia
Cursed
Robbed off their citizenship
Basic services-health care, basic education, housing
And indeed a future robbed off
By the merciless affluent
Aborigine of Australia
Cursed
Their extinction has never been this real
Real people in a real predicament
Aborigine of Australia
Cursed
ALL RIGHTS RESEARVED
MWANGI MUTHIORA 2009
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL POEM. TWO HOURS BEFORE HOLDS ALL THE RIGHTS
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Several years ago, (may be five years) I wrote this poem on Aborigines of Australia. I was inspired by the story of the men and women suffering in the clear watch of the elite white who literally commandeered the lives of this vulnerable community. Though they are not the only vulnerable community in the world, i have felt it worthwhile raising the predicaments of the Aborigine Community to even a bigger audience. Back here in Kenya we have read about the Ongiek Community who are as well a threatened community. Listening on the debate on Mau, you may have heard how very affluent politicians and senior civil servants benefited on land originally allocated to the Ongiek Community.
Further to this, its only this week the grand corruption in implementation of the Free Primary Education was exposed. As we celebrate this years Christmas, let as also ponder on the future of Kenya. Our rapacious politicians continues to rape and disfranchise this great nation. And just like the Aborigines of Australia or the Ongiek Community, we might loose this Motherland that we so dearly cherish.
Finally, It has been a great year been around and i must admit that TWO HOURS BEFORE has really achieved alot in just under an year. It is my very sincere hope that next year we shall be bigger and even more entertaining. To celebrate our achievements this far, we have launched the TWO HOURS BEFORE brand and coming soon we are having the Polo Shirts in the market. Have a great holiday and may your new resolutions be smart. Cheers and thank you once again for your kind support.
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Thought provoking yet chilling. Thanks. About our politicians,these, rascals and brigands, for lack of a better words; only a rigorous revolution can get us out this stagant tide we are in. In case, to a borrow a leaf from great nations round the globe, say, Russia, France and US, it was only through a nefariuos revolutions- bedrocks upon which great nations are made from. But what what is the chance of this ever going to happen.Zeeeeeeeeeroooo.....Yikes....
ReplyDeleteCheers for a job well done; and merrrrrrry Christmas and a happay New, blogging year. bildad
wao Simoh that has been a good & Blessed year may you take time to stock take & thank God for all was nice meeting u please keep the fire burning & i Pray tha your dream will Grow BIG & real.
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