THE STATE OF AFFAIRS

I sit and wonder about the chaos in the world,
Africa in turmoil, it's a ship in a tsunami.
We have pirates at the helm, everything is topsy-turvy.
Like sailors with scurvy, the leaders are intellectually-starved.
They are thieves and tyrants, killers and liars.
All the rulers really need a personality-transplant.
Its constant mutiny on the ship by rebels with guns
Spreading grief and strife like metastatic-tumors.
This social-pollution is all around the world
Big Nations become bullies, emotionally-handicapped.
The small ones prostitutes morally-castrated.
Politicians engage in egotistical-masturbation,
They promise so many things, all diplomatic-lies
Banks had to receive financial-resuscitation
For the nations to avoid economic-suicide.
I sit and wonder if this will ever end?
Or will it get worse til the call for lights-out?

Imran Darboe, state of affairs © 2013