Diktat

 

By  Marinus Samoh YONG,

 

That all this while they have been up there

With no thought spared for us seen down here

Groaning under the heavy weight of their power

The  pain of their hammer every sluggish hour.

 

That all this while they have held us hostage

With all the thought for barbaric rage

Scheming on how to improve their tool

The effective staff of their harsh misrule.

 

That all this while they have cooled their ass

With not a thought for our common pass

Sweating under the weight of their grueling strength

The nauseating smell of their brawny stench.

 

That all this while they have plundered our heritage

With all the thought for their collective pillage

Sketching the plans on alien grounds

The known result of their heavy pounds.

 

That all this while they have kept us in jail

With not a thought for the option of bail

Thinking of how to covert our possession

The main intent of their vile ambition.

 

That all this while they have raped our bequest

With all the thought for selfish conquest

Stashed in the vaults of the far far West

The agreed coppice of their common zest.

 

We groan under the heavy weight of their power

The excruciating hack of their cracking whip

The piercing strength of their stifling grip

As they plod on us every passing hour.

 

We sweat under the weight of their grueling strength

The biting pinch of their torture contraption

The putrid wounds of their wintry oppression

As our lean hapless file shorten its hurting length.

 

 

Comments

[GWEDENG NGALAH]

through the use of very subtle images, Samoh succeeds to capture a very scathing and despicable atmosphere of grime and graft in a way that one would seldom suspect his very confrontational stand:the beauty in ugliness as perceived in verse...