Poetry

ODE TO HUSSEIN OBAMA

Fine diplomacy and hopeful symbolism

Masking the heat that scorches his bottom

And the prospects of cruel obloquy,

Characterize deeds of an articulate liberator

The heat invokes his helper

O Wisdom! O Vigour!

In one mortal, fallible and frail as ourselves

Have the world entrenched

Opulent Optimism

For the purging of penury

Quixotic schemes to usurp the flagellation

Of civilisation by many menacing evils

To traipse the street of falsehood

In pursuit of the elixir is futile.

Do we not secrete elixir, and spit it out?

Saddled with a burden best suited for spirit beasts!

So factions, some as small as crevices

For concealing lizard eggs could have a piece of him,

His flesh was chopped

And split for all

Leaving a defenseless skeletal framework

Of disgruntlement and pessimism.

The weight would then press him

To invoke his knight on a white charger

O Immortality! O Death!