SOMBE PITCH

A poem about human misery and suffering in silence

Of scapegoats

Who in cold walk without coats

For they have been neglected

And left unprotected

 

Of human race

Whose freedom is less

And whose efforts;

Meanwhile labelled ‘faults’;

[Are nothing, but the burden

That which they do not deserve]

 

Of mankind

Who for nothing labor for the unkind

[And toil to no avail for a free mind]

While their speech

Is and forever a somber pitch

1994

Author's Note

Ignore grammar.