A Plea For Justice

Returning from a riverside

With a bucket of water

I saw droplets of tears

Cumulating by and by

Forming a small stream

Snaking to the riverside.

Returning from the riverside

I heard wailings of people

Children and old

Men, women, boys and girls

 Cursingly crying as the tears were

Snaking to the riverside.

Returning from the riverside

Injustice and greed matrimonized

Hunger, poverty and disease familiarised

Under the auspices of scavenging aristocrats

While tears of the victimised were

Snaking to the riverside.

Returning from the riverside

I heard complains complaining

Yet none listened to them

A little girl knelt before me pleading

For my intersection as her tears were

Snaking to the riverside.

Returning from the riverside

I gather plights and sorrows

To the altar of justice

And he sent me to men

Seeking mercy for other men whose tears are

Snaking to the riverside.

                                11/12/2008 Legon