POWER SHIFTERS

Those standing left and those standing right
Come, let’s engage in a destructive fight
Like two elephants at their destructive height
When we work for power
…and see ourselves tower

II
Oh come and let’s fight
Let’s destroy all that past toil did build
And go right back to the nothing field
Hoping to use weak minds as many a strong shield
To push laws for hands of crime to wield
So the right would be wrong
And the wrong will be strong

III
Just come and let’s fight
Let’s fight until darkness envelopes us
Thirst acts as our suicide bus
Hunger acts as our whip to cripple us
Roads dig themselves to kill us
Waters act poison to murder us
Let’s fight till living forces us to court death
And all are scared of giving birth
Just because of power that fails to unite us

IV
Let’s throw our minds into gutters and fight
Let’s force our sanity to commit suicide and crown insanity to fight
Let’s throw our empathy into political gutters and oh so fight
Let’s wear foolishness and cowardice to fight
…ourselves and dim our own promising light
Forgetting we harm ourselves if we harm one another
For our egos are more important than our growth
And our peace is more destructing than our desires
Go on and fight
Let’s divide ourselves further into dozens easy to smite
For our seconds of reign is more important than our collective growth

V
And when we are done with our fight
Let’s never seek remorse
Let’s never regret endorse
Let’s live in the pits of destruction and feign
…a world where our worthless superiority is worth all
…worth all our loss and fall
Let’s fight to the death and allow vultures
Vultures to eat clean the remains of our beautiful cultures
Amoafowaa Sefa Cecilia © January 15, 2025