An elegy for a president- A story of greed, duplicity and betrayal ~ iNewsGh

Friday 10 August 2012

An elegy for a president- A story of greed, duplicity and betrayal


Verse 1:
Even though we all gotta go, to go so fast is an unbearable kinda blow...
For many are those you were fighting for, who thought it wasn’t worth dying for.
After you were gone they did come to the fore,
 That discretion should have been the better part of thy valour.
Thy evil for custom sake now lives not after.
As such, same masses who thought thee inept acquiesce to say better.
In a little while after thy eternal departure,
 It’s said; you rode like a king and once dined a pauper.
Some say you smote a dragon and even walked on water,
 I bet this sweet banter they intend to inter later.
How long will they hold up? How long will the clock wind up?
 For same tongues to christen now a lollapalooza into a wimpy loser?
This custom, I dare say, must be hypocrisy short not of the highest order.
Trust them for the spiteful after; for even the Osagyefo had his quota. 
But thy pleasure is of one and one sure eternal order; to these hums thy flesh is immune forever.
Verse 2:
A moment of silence for each and every irresolute soul,
For even pegged at the echelons their course fear to control.
In serving God and Mammon, they thread a tragic road.
Needless Jerry toll his I told you so, 
For his protégé to the marauders gave the towing robe.
Tethering him to their greed albeit his frailly state,
Down the acrid and bellicose course of fatal hate.
Alas! He is no man who no cannot say.
But again, with tails between legs, off to the woods let the marauding wolves,
For to the death they did push the golden goose,
Thus a president of ours earth departed on that fateful day.
As a servile king remains a paradoxic state,
So in the woods the wolves did not lurk.
But took on governance in same breath of death,
Desolating us on a wing and a prayer for our nation’s state.

WRITTEN BY JASON TUTU
  

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