CHILDISH POLITICS & HELD AT RANSOME by Gerry Sikazwe

Unweaned pranks
Played by stony hearts
With insatiable crave
For power
Spoken in words
'Sugar-clothed'
And 'mint-spined'
Yet;
Deception
Poisonous
Crude and rude,
Staking the future
At the fattening
Of a few proud
Childish gluttony
HELD AT RANSOME
Political slavery
Is the new order
Of life
Here, were we
Worship a system
Erected from
Steel lies and
Concrete crookedness
Blood baths
Poverty
And doom its roof
Here were
Power and greed
Are our rulers.
Gerry Sikazwe is a Zambian poet and Blogger. He is the founding editor at a Zambian online literary journal called New Ink Review.
He has works featured in different online platforms such as Tuck Magazine, AfricanWriter.com, Tipton Poetry Journal, Dissident Voices, The Global Zambian Magazine, Nthanda Review, Scarlet Leaf Review, Apricity Magazine, the Zimbabwe We Want Campaign -Brave Voices Poetry Journal, And So Yeah, SpillWords.com