Posted by: Jonathan Caswell | October 3, 2021

WEEP MY CHILD


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Weep! Oh! Weep my child

The lion has become a slave

In his ancient and modern palace

To strangers and scavengers

While his offices are places

For excretion of decadence

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Weep! Oh! Weep my child

The white foxes have conquered

The fearless wild lions of Africa

In the battle of brains and minds

And freedom has left the land

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Weep! Oh! Weep my child

The king of the jungle

Has lost his jaws and claws

To the sharp sword of greed

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Weep! Oh! Weep my child

The lion has lost his heart

To religious fanaticism

His eyes gouged out

By the sharp claws of greed

And hands paralysed by tribalism

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Weep! Oh! Weep my child

Hope has fled to distant land

As your saviours are still asleep

In this weird age that greed

Is the new king of your nation

And blind cats sit on your…

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