Death Of An Empire

By Dr Nasir Hashim, President PSM

Did I not tell you about this senile Empire ?

   With its pompous guardians constipating at its door steps

      Festered by collusions, greed, profits, demi-gods and lost directions

But did I also not tell you how they fervently dig graves for others ?

     Too sedated and too dumb to realize that’s their very own

Did I tell you how their bastion of power crumbling like nine pins ?

Yet they think that’s progress

So they pride 

     Over slogans, promises and innuendoes  

         Destroying the very dreams that they ever fostered

So the Empire continues to wallow in jaundiced gusto

  Shackling the innocence at every twist and turn of time

     Claiming victory for their flaccid democracy and justice

Now you are witnessing the Empire’s ‘broken chain of command’

   Of misdirected priorities and competing opportunists

       Flip flop decisions, casting aspersions and intense blame games   

         Stumbling to pamper warped truths and spineless agencies

            Clamouring and clawing to ‘catch the eye’ of their master

 

You should also see within their rabid ranks

How hidden agenda so craftily designed

   To wrest power and refining character assassinations

     Inventing and reinventing scapegoats  

       Conjuring wild scenarios to nurture foul intentions

           Staging a ‘siege mentality’ through traitorous media pimps

So they declared war against their own people

Yet so afraid of repercussion and their own measly shadows

So they shut themselves

     In fortresses of body guards, black magic and gangsters in uniform

         Imbuing demented underlings to do their national biddings

Hark

Did you not hear the cries of the down trodden ?

     And the roar of defiance transcending all bounds

         Hacking away the chains of oppression and exploitation

            Persevering through ‘thick and thin’ over smoking gas, chemical waters,

              Battering rams, beaten bodies, cracked head, broken ribs, open wounds and

                 Mammoth arrests

Yet waves upon waves of humanity continue to throttle the Empire

Yet its lackeys  

   Continue to live in denial and lavishing in false comfort

     Clutching desperately onto illusions and blatant lies

So this struggle goes on in ever fiery circle

 Paralyzing the capitalists, opportunists, parasites, jingoists, racists and power brokers

But then, when the Empire and its lackeys are dead and gone

      Will you then resurrect another Empire of the same ?

Nay … the empowered masses will summon the very marrow of your existence

    To deal a crushing blow

       To all pretensions and exploitations.