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the servant class

the hand that layed the brick
and the sweat that rolls and drips
are the slaves the monument are layed upon,
but yet their lives are terribly undone

the blood that suffered the cause of the foundation
or the ones that culture the womb of vegetation
are the drying lips,dying of severe hunger
while the commanders are the greedy mongers

the potter that moulded the plate
is living in such a paradox state
where food is lacking in the dishes
that he crafted for other mens wishes

but servants now are turning to masters
and palaces now are forming into gutters
for the demarcation of a class is gaping
inbetween the boundary of its intertwining
— emeka ozurumba, Jan 16, 2009

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Region, Country: Nigeria , abuja

Favorite Poets: christopher okigbo, wole soyinka, gabriel okara , odiah ofeimun- john keats, p.b shelley

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yenti

yenti

17 years 4 months ago

A Change

Maybe for the better that you may see, but these changes bring chaos, then greed, then the poor little person that tends the fields or builds the palaces is once again destroyed. Your pieces on how you feel are well written and easy to read, I can only hope that as the world turns each person shall be given their worth, I am sorry that I cannot change them in a moment of time,we took thousands of years to crawl out of the mud huts we lived in to be as we are, I have no answer to your call, Yours Ian.T