The Presidential Beach

Check your heartbeat; are you alert, alive?

Have we ever been, or are we simply blameworthy?

Party to a vast crime – apathy of the first degree?

Instead of sitting around

café-gossiping about the fashions of the day,

we need to relay collectively, constructively –

for all to hear, feel and see:

I demand to be free! I refuse to be misused!

I refuse to be a victim of the President’s malcontent.

Mr President, please, please! Don’t make us pay for your palace.

Criminally callous – the people are starving…

Mr President, please, please! It’s in your hands, it’s within your reach.

Please, don’t build yourself a private presidential beach;

gusts of our tears

sifting silently into

breakers of our blood.

This piece was written on 30 December 2013.

Edited on 7 January, 2014. Thanks to RB for the comments.

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