hurricanes

say the president was from here
surely these green hounds with jackboots
would not come here to shoot
 
say a million youths were jobless
in a region and they know
of the oil wells not just a few
 
once we went about innocently
waiting a donkey years for the government
but getting only neglect, abandonment
 
why do they now shoot at us
spilling our blood on our crude
to take exploitation to altitudes
 
does a mother kill her children
because they reached out for meal
when she had failed to give them some to eat