Poems of Thobile Maso
A Gravy Train
a poem by Thobile Maso©2003 Thobile Maso
Where are the people, the gravy is oozing
Poverty fangs in demoralized spiritual fulfillment
While others now and then drown in gravy train
Baphin’abantu – Where are the people?Yi – gravy Sbali – Yiyo! yi – gravy
Leaders who have neither passion nor direction
Have lost love and collective power of purpose
Bureaucracy corrupts young lions absolutely
Madiba nawe Zizi, intervention is now, or elseBayanyathelana ngenxa ye – gravy Sbali
Even those in "doti" municipalities are diving, rushing in
Catching the last carriage forgetting peoples’ mandates
Nzimande nawe Vavi, wafa umphakathi baphel’abantu
United we stand together with leaders and masses
Struggle against privatized gravy train
No gravy for one! No gravy for all!Leaders are few gravy grabbers are many
They despised the struggle for freedom
Dosing in their offices dreaming about gravy
Begging people to elect them wanting to test gravyHayi! Yi gravy Sbali nyani
Oh! Women and Men this gravy train derails our freedom
Conceiving rather than transferring the power
Full of descriptions on less analytical sense
The country of powerful, powerless, wealth and poor
What a confusion, yi – gravy SbaliA gravy to one! Is a gravy to all!
An injury to one! Is an injury to all!
Poems of Thobile Maso..........a selection