David Omondi

OBAMA

Almost two thousand and ten years ago

At the behest of Herod’s messianic aspirations

A cry was heard in Bethlehem and Ramah

Now echoing in the yuletide cries of mothers

In Yemen, Pakistan, Iraq, and Afghanistan

Children slain by the bombs of Obama

And we remember; Nagasaki and Hiroshima

Speak of a bleak nuclear future

While the season brings new hope

A savior – Nobel acclamations

Droning death on the feast of the innocents

And alas, his King-ly appeal proves

But a Sambo dance for the great Uncle Sam

Manifest destiny in black-face

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TIME IS RUNNING OUT

I was born into a world of mystery

One where everything was laid out for me

Prescribed a path following a certain way to be

In a consummate, commercial reality

The aftermath of freedom, democracy

And white man’s Christianity

So pay attention and choose wisely

Because in the balance hangs your own destiny

Unfortunately y’all the bullshit didn’t end with Gee Dubya

Cause there’s a new world order in a post-racial era

As the truth of just where we stand becomes clearer

We’ve got his Nobel holiness, Barack Obama the minstrel

Translation: neo-colonial distortions on neo-nuclear proportions

Check it, using Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King

To justify the Wolfowitz doctrine all over again

While in debt we war on jobs, healthcare, and a greener economy

Still we maintain a world conquest military budget called defense

So drones deliver death to innocent babies in Yemen

And our tax dollars fund new heights of Apartheid in Palestine

And AFRICOM looms in poverty stricken Kenyans

And a continent already facing war floods and famine

Yet forgetfully we behave as though our supply of oil is unlimited

While Halliburton and AIG still reap the lion’s share of dividends

So give heed to the prophecies of these humble servants and scribes

We’re loving a lie not realizing in Adam all die

Like Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, all those Marleys and Lauryn said

We be loving a lie not realizing in Adam all die

And though Babylon thy eye be steadily trained upon me

I know that our Creator breathes life and it’s in me

Born to a mother called Earth and a father called Time

Knowing we must honor them if we are to survive in the land

But our ecological footprint is the indelible mark on our soul

The death toll and captivity of those on our insatiable payroll

Because morality is absent when there’s big money to be made

The truth the first casualty when corporate plutocracy reigns

For we know that in the tension between the real me and the perceived we

Dwells the defense of the mirrors, smoke and lies used to deceive thee

Contentious pretense subverting conscience and comprehension

It’s the all-polluting symptom of this filthy rotten shit-stem

And though repeatedly our Mother Earth succinctly impends

That she can no longer withstand our rapacious connivance

Still we’re tempting Time bringing her steadily forward

Unapologetically onward toward eco-nuclear catastrophe

For those who live by the sword shall die by the sword

And I see a composite picture of the world around me just in Haiti

Cause Blacks is still up in the prison

…and everywhere is war, everywhere is war,

But we are confident in Jah victory

In good over evil

Said we are born into a world of mystery

One where, everything is laid out for

A narrower path or an iconic way to be

A consumptive entity in a consummate, commercial reality

The lyrical fantasy of a capitalized, destructive identity

Do the math, this is modern day slavery

The aftermath of free market liberty

And it spells death to your mind, your soul,

Your body and your history

To the Earth and all that liveth there

Now creativity is the last vestige of sanity

Love the reason and the rhyme in each defining paradigm

Remember, she said it’s the only solution

Everything else is just passing Time

But he’s running out