“The Obloquy You Enforced Upon Your Blood”

4th Poem from my Virtual Poem Gallery. Warning: It's another long poem of mine :)

My country, multicultural and abounding in riches

Home to many warmhearted and joyful humans

A hotpot of talented and brilliant minds and skills

Oh, how my love and compassion, runs deeply for you

My homeland of the hard working, for their loved ones

 However, my hatred runs deeply here too.

I loathe the ignorance being spread by the blind

Who seek to lead astray everyone around them

I despise the immoral that feel pleasure over being

Disgusting and cruel, harming all who cross their path

 I especially abhor, the corruption whose deeps roots have entrenched

Itself into our fertile land, filled atop on its surface are innocents

Who could not receive proper wages and service

Who fear natural tragedies, which could be properly planned against

Oh, how I hate the stupid, the greedy, and most of all the power-lust politicians

You, who scour our land for influence and wealth

You, who deprive others of what you have in abundance

You, who seek to defile and ruin and destroy

All life that surrounds you; the ones you abandoned

You, who spend money that does not belong to you and take chunks from it!

 Oh, how depressing it is for us to be looked down upon

Caught in the news stealing from a mall; a store

Our situation broadcasted, to the world of how much we suffer from evil

Our drenched and hurt and starving faces in every screen in existence

How dare you, plaster this on our good-natured brothers and sisters?

 Have you no shame? Have you no compassion?

Do you not have mothers, sisters, brothers, fathers?

Daughters, sons, nieces, nephews, granddaughters, grandsons?

Cousins, aunts, uncles, friends and more?

What must it take for your heart to be thawed and soften?

 Now our future, the youth and more dream

Dream to run away and never return

Hope to bring everyone they love and befriend

Towards better lands, more fulfilling lives

Lives filled with warm shelters and food

Water and opportunities

 Even if our country lacks nothing

My dear fellow victims, wake up and realize

All which was spent from us

Wake up to the deaths and the tortured and the raped

To the sold and the used, and the next to be cast aside!

 We were not born to merely endure, persevere, and survive!

We are here to live Christ-like lives, to be used as instruments

For the expansion of His Kingdom! To share love and hope

To be the light and salt of this world, sharing the Gospel!

We are servants of God in charge of protecting life and loving each other

 I only hope and wish for my motherland

Is to start over after we crush our current systems here.

Author's Note

Amateur writer, please give me constructive criticism! Thank you and God bless you! <3