Ebi (Hunger)

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Ebi (Hunger)

 
Why do they say - Pain motivates?
as though one amorously delights in its welts
the fear of pain they make us die many times over...
two nations struggle yet
one becomes stronger than the other.

Why do we always stay famished yet
our other kindred tend overtly bulimic
we were born equal yet vastly dissimilar.
they live as imperials
we merely survive yet another harrowing hunger day
a day of pain and turmoil
whipped out of order
in anarchy and venality in the clutches of Ebi.

Ebi,
who's famed so great even the mighty bow in obeisance
the great primordial servant of the ages
the fearsome leviathan
striding with an infernal-seamed trident.

in one swift stroke of your forearm
thou evoke your spell,
striking mortals aground -
groaning.

You smite them like fired mire
yes! with hot white fury hunger pangs
you pierce their innards in grotesque allure.

Yet what must be said -
would indeed be said
your curse have made kings out of peasants
and irrevocably made royals - slave
so today begins your trial
the chalice is indeed brim full
the brink of an epidemic
to an innocent world.

You have been accused
in the presence of mortals and immortals alike
Mama Africa - the plaintiff
a gamut charges of injustice and nepotism.

Corpulent Mama from the magnifying spectacle of the sky
mama Africa -
yet looming nearer - a frail, scrawny, shuffling hag
forgotten, raped and neglected.

Africa
and the conundrum of her aging existence
Intellectually ballistic in shape,
a forte of supernatural strength
garrisoned by virile lands
evergreen lore of global civilization
Yet what must be said -
would be said.

Sibling to the first world
one of three born to global reign
you were the greatest yet the least
strongest yet the most feeble with wobbly aptitude
Now all there is -
a country transformed into an ominous shadow
of your priestly self.

Africa -
The chosen oracle of the Divine
slain with unending javelins of hunger
by the pious deity of god -
Ebi.

Look far, look wide
gaze all ye children of the mother earth
upon this plush expanse
not a single desolate form in the beginning
but see! 
wars, injustice, corruption.

Yielding your rich bequeath
for what?
a penniless worth of food,
a dry unwholesome morsel
Now,
you merely live
like a slave among your prosperous distant kindred.

Should my musing be superimposed
onto the greater philosophers of the world
should a thousand rhetorics would suffice
what will my impugning be?

Why is hunger different?
why is white hunger disparate from the black hunger
why didn't Ebi fairly thrust white hunger at Africa
and to our white kindred -
black hunger
why is black hunger so evil yet
white hunger so uplifting
soaring as in the Egyptian eagle.

Why does Africa have so much yet lack plenty
and others have so little but lack want
why are we so dependent?
aiding the world with AIDS and
endless communal wars

how do explain
that only yesterday we
spire into the celestials
yet like failed experiments of nature laboratory
doomed to crash

why the pestilence
the putridness -
the loss of precious lives
to disease and starvation
Indeed,
there is cause to ask -
what have we done?.

Could hunger be so paralyzing yet far reaching
we therefore want
we cry
aspire to be nothing but babes
we complain
spectacled we gaze
at the days of our life
as it travels away
before our very eye.

A hundred fold richer but none the less greater
a few in the company of impoverished bandits
will only come to naught

But I see you
in those green eye of yours
loathing at your kindred
across the sea the land
fraught with butter, milk and fat, i see you indeed.

Who can blame you?
I am orphan you scream out
loud it still falls upon you
no this, no that
while you sit as in treasure island.

But who can blame you?
your ancient yet juvenile self
who rather grub at the harvest of other's toil
by god! who can blame the hungry man whose
only inspiration is for that pottage
the barter of greatness.

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