The Arusha Times

Issue 00536

September 20 - 26, 2008

issn 0856 - 9135 

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By Kaaya Shilia
AICC-ARUSHA
kaayashilia@hotmail.com

Imperial lust

The relics of history pervades

Coiling like python

Swallowing the gazelle

With innocent smile of death

The pain, the pain

With the python even longer

Such a heap and bulging

With grass leveled with weight

Trees cricking with height

The plains that naked

The pythons upon the flocks

The relics of history such a pain

The land feuds of time

If not aggression on high seas

In pursuit of riches

Killing, maiming at will

After centuries of pattern

Holistic attires of purported saints

Sending the word to the pagans

Though demarcating the territories

For empires to reach

The blue ends of the earth

Now grabbing with lunacy

Born of the patterns

Now going astray

Is new order hatching?

Or are the pattern ever the same?

With the brunt to befall them

The poor of the earth

 

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