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ambassadors of poverty?
04-02-2014, 04:48 PM
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ambassadors of poverty?
the real poem

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04-02-2014, 04:56 PM
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Yep, That's what I think Obama is only good for. He certainly hasn't HELPED people out of poverty.

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04-02-2014, 04:59 PM
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ok, here you go. http://poetryfoundationghana.org/index.p...of-poverty


Ambassadors are
The corrupt master of the economy
With their heads abroad
And anus at home
Patriots in reverse order
Determined merchants of loots
Who boost the economy of the colonial order
To impoverish brothers and sisters at home


Ambassadors of poverty are
The “saviours” of the people
Office loafers in the guise of workers
Barons of incompetence
With kleptomaniac fingers
And suckling filaments
Position occupants and enemies of service
Locked in corrosive war of corruption
With their people’s treasury
And killing their future
Ambassadors of poverty are
The dubious-sit-tight “patriots”
Frustrating the cooperate will of their followers
The beleaguered, hungry and famished
Owners of land
People, priced out of their conscience and power
Incapacitated by their destitution
Unable to withstand the temptation
Of crispy mint and food aroma


Ambassadors of poverty are
The political elite
In air-condition chambers
And exotic cars
With tearful stories of rip-offs
Tucked away from
Their impoverish constituencies
Lying prostrate
With death traps for roads
Mud for water, candle for light
Underneath trees for schools
Rat for protein
Fasting as food
And alibi as governance


Ambassadors of poverty
Are rancorous elite
In battle of supremacy
For the control of power
And their people’s worth
Mowing down their own
With white man’s machines
Oiled by the prosperity of black patronage
Counterpoised by deprivations
As the corpses of their able bodied men
Women and children li unmourn
In shallow graves
In their fallow farm lands
Long abandoned


Ambassadors of poverty are
The round trippers
The elusive importers
Of unseen goods and services
Sand inclusive
Who trip the economy down
By tricking form M
For harvest of dollars as imports
When their people see neither money nor food

Ambassadors of poverty are
The able-bodied men on the street
Without motive, without vision, without mission
Men fit for the farms
But glued to the city
Hungry and desperate
Constituting willing tools in the hands
Of political overlords
For mission of vendetta
Against political foes
In their fight for power

Ambassadors of poverty are
Those who actions and inactions
Reduce their people’s expectation to nothingness
Those who antecedents
Have the spark to inspire
While their people lie in surrender
Having been defeated by poverty

Ambassadors of poverty are
All of us whose in-actions
Steal our collected joy
Because of what we should do
Which we never do
As we bargain away
Our conscience in the market place
Under the weight of poverty
To assuage our hunger
And our master’s will
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04-02-2014, 05:08 PM
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And your question is!
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