Government officials, police and all in authority,
The welfare of yuh country should be yuh top priority.
Nuh use yuh power and di trust of di people fa yuh own personal gain,
While some live in the slums and the ghetto and you live in di fast lane.
Moral impurity, Embezzlement, and bribery,
A dat contribute to the exploitation of our society.
Selling out yuh country and integrity for a small fee,
just don't mek nuh sense to me.
You mista offica teking bribe and ignoring yuh sense of duty,
acting unscrupulously causing justice to loose har beauty.
Spreading corruption like a disease infection,
surely this needs instant cure and vaccination.
You Mista Minister with the keys to the bima zim zimma,
driving di country in a stone wall wrecking it with yuh dishonest behavia.
Feeding the rich and starving the poor,
While yuh friends and family get government contract galore.
Corruption is yuh profession eating the society like a termite,
eating slowly eating day and night with no end in sight.
A pest like dis must be drench in pesticide
Stomp out corruption until there is no hole to hide
Dis situation need the right resolution
As a country as a people wi a go fight until wi get a revolution
wi must end dis exploitation, dis evil oppression
Accepting salvation while destroying this monster of the at most violation

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Societal Adversities
PoetryA compilation of poems depicting societal challenges. Many done in the dialect of the beautiful island of Jamaica.