Thursday, January 21, 2010

promise food and aid

they promised food and aid,
sent it down even in the smallest of band-aids.
these things though have yet to reach
the people who in agony endlessly beseech.
medicine, food, clothes, what they needed most
and those in power fully responded with a-
yes
and a- “no”.

in their thinking, always racist and flawed
they decided to send guns then gauze.

they say barking soldiers will bring order-
(the same ones with post traumatic stress disorder?)

that’s what they say but the truth may differ
because beneath a disciplined military exterior
feelings of hatred and superiority still simmer.
beneath the promise of food and aid
the chess of imperialism is still being played.

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