PNG time bomb
27 June 2015
JIMMY DREKORE
An entry in the Crocodile Prize
Kina Securities Award for Poetry
"Tick, tock, tick, tock," who can hear the clock?
They talk and talk and talk, but who is listening to the clock?
Like an innocent gazelle we are approaching a submerged croc
We can’t hear the warning sound nor see the hungry croc
A surprise attack awaits us, "tick, tock, tick, tock"
In the 1980s words like marijuana, steam and aids never belong to the streets
Marijuana and steam belong to prison and aids belong to hospital but like athletes
They have won their heats and their feats have spilled onto the streets
Not to be envied but to destroy a generation, the younger fleets
In rubble are hospital and prison concretes
The clock is ticking
We are still talking
No one is doing
They are dying
Simbu, think ahead when PNG is still sleeping
They need caring
Their parents will be leaving
Are we willing?
Your human resource is depleting
Simbu, will you continue boasting?
Tick, tock, tick, tock, who can hear the clock telling us the time to start
We don’t want to see a generation depart
For Simbu to continue leading human resource lets be smart
Let’s build a fence and pour in the Simbu heart
When the rest of the nation will have blood on the chart.
Pretending, ignoring. ...
Hesitating, nervous. ...
Must not be of the Simbus....Very motivating!....Go Simbus Go!
Posted by: Philip G Kaupa | 27 June 2015 at 08:34 AM