January 11th, 2010 at 4:50 pm

Blood Diamonds

Laughing fishermen at peace on a river,
their teeth glowing like pearls against their chocolate complexions;
women with bumps in their bellies soothe their sons and daughters.
All is quiet on the western front of the Dark Continent.

Bulky bulldozers stampede the lush landscape,
which quickly crumbles into a graveless cemetery.
Lean bodies cascade like dominoes
into a river suffused with the red liquid of life.

Their innocent minds corrupted by a daily joint,
male youths are shoved by the mighty hands of the rebels.
Eyes of sweating slaves, hypnotized by the soft ruffle of the river,
detect stones of heaven concealed beneath the murky water.

Alas, a stone of heaven!
The rebels rejoice over the precious gem,
like mothers who rejoice when they bare new life.
The masters do not smell the poison of the rotten peach.

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