JEREMIAD: "UNFAIR LABOUR PRACTICE" BY RADICAL

Lifeless arms of a hungry peasant

wields a heavy jackhammer.

Which stood erect

Deflowering and desecrating the virgin rock

In spasmodic kicks

It ejaculate compressed drilling alkaline water splashing it into homosapien brows

Perforating holes into a mineral laden rock,

Sprawled like a raped whore,

The rock squirts her minerals.

In wagons these raw minerals like sperms in a condom are delivered to hands of thieves with tensed or flexed political muscles.

Hands circumcised with blunt edges of blasted rocks drips with pitiable malnourished blood,

Bandaged with pieces of torn clothes from oil tainted overalls

They're denied healthy facilities!

"Work or find yourself out of this firm" snarled the foreman 

To the injured employee.

Women deprived of fair maternity leave!

Deprived ample time to nurse their kwashiorkor plagued kids!

Denied time to attend funerals of their relatives!

Rights cease to be rights 

When equality ain't equal.

BLESSING S. CHIGUNDA

-Nigeria

©️ 2023

The poet persona complains over the neglect of laws, harshness of protocol and arrest of human rights in the territory he resides.