All about natives and foreigners!: A poem 

Tell me, if those that pretended to be virtuous 

were actually colliding with justice! Written history’s  

sheaves are no crumpled pages, but leathered logs  

in libraries of a conspired narrative. Victims being  

made villains! You can see, that demons come in  

disguise, like attractive gods with their flax hair, blue  

eyes and alabaster complexions; that they have swords 

behind their scapulas, on ships that stank of their 

vomit and gave us more verminous poison than just disease and 

death! You can tell how we have learnt to genuflect 

to that haloed crucifix without the awareness that 

we have arse-bended to lend ourselves; our haplessness and  

hopelessness not to mention, some martyrs died with pride! 

That our cottage industries were wiped out and we were  

given poverty and misery for our accepting their Christianity! 

What about those vast stolen lands, stolen peoples, lost 

gernerations…What about some of our natives welcoming 

so gullibly the treason as God-sent. You know how our countries made  

so little sound when the huge axe fell on our trunks! Our 

forests were divided at their whim, so when we got our  

freedom in absolute impoverishment, we made war on  

each other and made them wealthier by buying their ammo 

to fight our wars! And you tell me now, how much imperialistic aid 

is there in abetting the imperialism itself. Look at all the  

institutions of the world, how proudly they stand with them, 

only meant to further their wealth and power and keep us poor!  

And how our land-wealth is still being siphoned off by their imposing MNCs! 

So, there is a stranglehold that must not be broken! 

For if you are a rebel, aren’t you shattering the peace and justice of the  

World Order?! Like we all don’t know who the Global rules-based Order 

is meant for! Like there is greater justice when our prized possessions 

are proudly exhibited in their museums; so, we must give their tourism  

a boost when we visit our own sites; and they think it is not 

our birthright to have them back! What is the confusion now, 

between your land and my land?… when like paupers we abandoned  

our lands for yours, because you all left us so dilapidated that 

we looked for better lives, albeit with no pride, inferior citizens in your lands. 

And are the Americas and the Australias your lands as well? 

Think honestly about the rapine before your false egos claim which is which!