THE RAPE OF AMAZON

Enter:

The accused: Man

The Tribunal: Court of Posterity

The Judge: Posterity

Man,

We charge you

Of raping Amazon

And disrobing her

Of her ancient canopies

And exposing her

To the vagaries of the weather.

Man,

You led multinational

Loggers to her

Secret chambers

And stripped her bare

Of her natural apparels

And left her in nude

To attract other eco-predators

Around the world

To satisfy their ungovernable lust

And afterwards plunder her treasures.

Man,

Look how you have

Deflowered our Amazon

The princess who once

Held the universal umbrella

Over the head of humanity.

And the price for this eco-lust is

A catastrophe of an

Unimaginable magnitude!

***From the POETRY OF JOHN ODEY ADUMA, August 25, 2006

 

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