A SLUMBER TOO DEEP

By Julius Malah Matete Munthali Satisfied faces Fat handshakes Full bellies Flooding smiles Group photos A free grain Another miscalculation dancing freely in a slumber A slumber of a dying but surely Africa A slumber too deep, a slumber malevolent An ages cry of economic independence Donations and donations, a struggle continues Crippling a crippled Africa Foreign aid Forever the sun will shun Africa