Neo-Colonialization

As capitalism encourages greed,
watch closely at what proceeds.
Metal sheets on the roofs of slums,
while you count your lump sums.

Looking at your children, you can justify,
taking, stealing, looting, while they scrape by.
while she rocks her starving child,
the African people that you exiled.

We take lavish vacations with pictures captured,
for facebook, instagram, life manufactured.
Have we lost our souls,
just for a few bankrolls?

Abjection smells like petrol fumes,
while famine barely touches our newsrooms
Our empires built on the backs of women,
their stories, heroic and relevant, never written.

Self-perpetuated gluttonous hunger,
for resources, feeding the warmonger
Whispers in the polluted streets,
plans to take it back from the elites.

Turn your backs on poverty,
Souls lost to an atrocity.
When there is no solution,
there will be a revolution.

and where will you hide?
for their anger and hate is justified.
a pound of flesh for flesh taken,
nothing you can do for the forsaken.

What will you do when it begins?
You will never be able to hide your sins.
A lifetime of good deeds won’t save me,
Every action is just a helpless plea.