#shoestring
Tying a string to loan
Coercing a poor country,
Under the yoke of poverty
To squawk and groan,
Also making
The noose tighter, tighter
So that aid it fails to garner,
Allow a hypocrite donor
To flog the receiver
Into a restricted domain
To every donor’s whim
Saying “Amen.”
Tragically, this way receiver’s
Development wishes
And growths’ talk
Will go up in smoke.
In such manner,
With malfunctioned cog,
Receiver turns
The tail of the donor dog,
.
On the other hand,
For donor’s
Geopolitical advantage,
With preferential treatment
The ingratiating donor’s pet,
Pampered, will enjoy
Jealously -strewn
Dream’s fulfillment
To its heart’s content,
While the pushover
Smothered, maltreatments
Has to suffer.
It is such strings
The pushover-made
Ethiopia managed to cut
To generate much-needed
Over 5000 Megawatt.
Megawatt, which commands,
On the back, many a pat.
In so doing
Ethiopia has set an example
Emerging countries
Could realize
Developmental take off
By own dabble
Ramming home donors’
Double standard is
What they can
Do without, while in
Birth cry bout.
Chopping the string
With a self-esteem knife
Ethiopia born GERD to life
Tapping Abay (Blue Nile)—
A confluence of rivers,
Which are rife.
Ethiopia is
Tapping its gigantic river
That originates from its soil
To do away with women’s
Back-breaking toil.
Ethiopia is harnessing
Its prodigal river
To avoid fetching firewood,
Chocked with smoke,
To prepare food.
Ethiopia is subduing
Its God-bestowed river
To outreach with light
Students that study
Late into the night
For want of
A reading lamp
That use smoky lantern
In far-flung corners of
The country’s
Schools’ map.
Ethiopia is
Forcing the river
Yield a hand
So that
Nation’ demand
Electricity—
Mushrooming industries’
Lifeblood—
Soon, will flow
Like an irrigating flood.
Ethiopia is
Taming the wild river
In a bid
Environment-friendly
GERD starts
Generating hydropower soon
To let the region enjoy
The unprecedented boon.
When GERD materializes,
The heinous, covetous
Donors’ pet ,
Which claims to date
The river is
Its exclusive right
Will be
Coerced to stop
Eclipsing the country’s
Affluence hope.
The less privileged
Round the globe
Which are
Under the same fate
Ethiopia’s
Development ******
Could emulate.
Soon Ethiopia will
Join the club
Countries marked
Industrial hub.
You know something?
Arm twisting
Is the mystery of the string!
So go for bootstrapping
Use shoestring.
Apr 8, 2021
Apr 8, 2021 at 3:38 AM UTC
You put a little glass box on the table
Said here's mine now show me yours
So I took out a piece of paper
And drew something like a shoestring
Now this is all I've got you see
I don't have very much at all
But this is down way deep inside me
So deep you would die from the fall
Jun 12, 2014
Jun 12, 2014 at 2:28 PM UTC
Living on a shoestring, but
I'm enjoying my Spring Fling
Apr 17, 2017
Apr 17, 2017 at 2:17 PM UTC
An oblique shoe string
Hangs from a power line
knotted through
the wrong holes
A baby carriage on
the sidewalk
just left out
in the cold
a golden autumn
November tree
sheds her last leaf
she weeps and she mourns
nothing left
to be solved
these puzzles
make me sick
pieces are rotted mold
when you put them
together
its a lonely kid
the letters blank
ink pens run
out of code
The apartment
I live in is still the
Bloodiest brick red
stained relationships
I neglected
Its a splattered
picture on my white wall
Three wolves
each take turns
trying to blow me down
i guess these children
stories held
Some sort truth to them
after all
I just stand tall
like the effiel
tower im
builts for
world affair
Im was just hoping
for this morning
to be a symbol
of peace
listen for
a silent noise
a whisper
a vendor yelling
in the street
but its just loud
its violent creatures
and its laying in my
bed next to me
Dec 1, 2020
Dec 1, 2020 at 4:28 PM UTC