The golden state

Democracy's just a word when profit margins are on the line

Arbenz learnt the lesson of the corporates grand design

Torrijos and Roldos fought, and came crashing down to earth

Mossadegh's disposal soon aborted freedoms birth

Lumumba in the Congo through to Aristide in Haiti

The Gulf War waged to discipline, not freedom for Kuwaiti's

Allende's story finished with a full stop marked in lead

Indonesia's red star left almost a million dead

Chavez knows the wrath that comes from caring for your people 

Golds disciples moved to boardrooms once they vacated the steeples

The wolves are in the pasture, and the jackals roam the land

Countries bleed and suffer for the stock markets demands

The unholy birth of terror through a marriage of money and state

Real freedom's just a dream in this illusion they create

The emperors power is absolute, this effigy of gold

We play this game of free choice as we all wait to be sold   

Reviews

[Amanda Granger]

"Golds disciples moved to boardrooms once they vacated the steeples
The wolves are in the pasture, and the jackals roam the land
Countries bleed and suffer for the stock markets demands"

Clearly you know your history! This is excellent. A real joy to read; I love historical allusions in poetry, and once again, it has a nice flow. And another really piercing last line. Great social commentary in poetry form. :)

[anartao]

As cliched as it is, i firmly believe that the future is doomed if we do not understand what has transpired in the past, and not the airbrushed version of the victors that we get taught, but the real events that have gotten us to this current stage. Really glad you liked it !

[Amanda Granger]

I definitely 110% agree!