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A New Beginning?
Contributed by
pete
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Friday, 4th June 2004 @ 04:57:59 AM in AEST
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A NEW BEGINNING?...(Peter Sprenkeler)
Blood still flows in those streets of carnage,
Yet a new President has been recently appointed.
Amid the gunfire and chaoshe has the awesome task,
Of establishing a democracywith this burden he is anointed.
The smell of violent deaththe acrid cordite stench,
Wafts through the suburbs and dusty downtown lanes.
Amid the screams of the wounded and rebellions fury,
The people struggle to hear what he proclaims.
Such an agendahas he any hope at all?
To unite such a turbulent and divided nation.
With so many tribes and factions and violent militias,
To introduce peace and orderhope or forlorn aberration?
No one would envy this mans seemingly impossible role,
To bring democracyto this land of violence and the gun.
A complete debacle of chaosand social disunity,
Will it be a realityor fade as a setting desert sun?
One has to gasp at the sheer enormity of the task,
Every fibre of the nationup from the ashes to be transformed.
Infrastructure as well as a beleaguered and fearful population,
To be rebuiltrestructuredand in unity conformed.
Few could espouse any words of great confidence,
Yet a proud and determined people no one would doubt.
In the course of time they could surprise many skeptics,
And as a young democracythey could indeed stand out.
Yet many enormous hurdles have to be negotiated,
Not the least of which is uniting a historically divided land.
A land where the automatic weapon is worn as jewelry,
And agendas are as plentiful as the swirling desert sand.
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Re: A New Beginning?
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by venkat on
Friday, 4th June 2004 @ 06:12:29 AM AEST
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| most exquisite write..well focussed. venkat |
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