She Eats

[The Simple Plan]

I wrote this after watching a documentary about Aids in sub Saharan Africa.

She Eats
the simple plan @ 2002

I watch in agony
From my lofty position in the diaspora
As she painfully eats away
At those I have left behind

So easy to make a value judgement
From my cosy tower of monogamy
Looking out of my fishbowl
Wondering how many more she can devour

The undertaker reports
That he makes over 200 soul boxes a week
Is he making a killing?
Or is she?

Conspiracy suggests that
Medicine had a hand in creating such havoc
But who perpetuates the finger
of poison that grasps the motherland by her neck

Irresponsibility? Education? Poverty?
All subective suppositions from one
Who knows nothing what it is like
To live in squalor in a fourth even fifth world

When all hope is gone
And her sister violence continues
The subscriptions for death
Solace is found in chemical distribution

A moment of temporary pleasure
Submitting to the incurable she devil
Possessing all she can find
Chewing them up and spitting out the residue

I watch in agony
From my lofty position in the diaspora
As she painfully eats away
At those I have left behind

 

 

[oncewaslost]

thanks for sharing.

 

[Blessed-one]

awww, how sad indeed.