Thobile Maso

Express of Misery

 

Should I provoke your social being once more
Should I sensitise your human soul again
Let me share this sinister in this hour with you

The low intensive silent war
Creeping invisible to the South
Like virus in the summer night
Worse than Ebola and Congo fever
Viciously and mercilessly brutalising the poor
Blast like volcano with one size fit all
If not corruptors of humanity

WHAT DO YOU CALL

Glory of globalisation unite to divide
Galaxy of glittering oozing blood of labour
From South, East, Asia, Latino America
Let the people and realities dictates
The future will be what they make it to be
Unless they want to be what the parasites want them to be

STOP! CORRUPTORS OF HUMANITY

In the horns of dilemma
Is it tension, pace, target of change
Peace, bread and freedom
Before the day light robbers make a mess
Be warned the greed is getting out of hand
The dishes are making noisy in the kitchen
The spoon is hungry

OH! CORRUPTORS OF HUMANITY

Physical life, Psychological death
Murdered by arrows of daily exploitation
Women Being harried by day and haunted by night
Men paying lips not life service
There is no ready made freedom
Fighting is on Mobilise capacity for strength

CO OPTION OF CORRUPTORS

IS..MOVING LIKE EXPRESS!!

 

 

Socialism Is My Future
(worker’s short prayer)
 

Socialism is my future
I have nothing to lose
It makes me to be conscious of myself
Though I live in the miserable situation
I will fear no brutality
Because the working class is with me
Marxism and Leninism is my compass
It guides me against the temptations of capitalism
It restores my conviction
It agitates and mobilises the masses
The workers’ militancy is my strength
I will commit my life forever
To fight for socialism

 

 

The Historical Mission

 
 

Wake up -

The point of arrival is the point of departure
The first victory is the revolutionary trial
The state machinery is refusing to obey
Who is directing whom

Wake up - You have a mission
Are you in power or You are the power

Are you high jacked or straight jacked
Are you an actor of your destiny or a spectator
Are you ready to take forward the journey
Wake up - You have a mission

Confusion in the capitalist world - The Saints are the Sinners
The Devil is divined

Swimming in the deep sea of poverty and pain
The umbilical cord of capitalism is invisible
Hidden below the belly of the beast
The mission is grand and the end is yours
You are the motivating force of the mass desires and aspirations

Wake up - You have a mission

The ice has been broken
The road is open
The way has been shown
The TINA against the TIRA
There is a revolutionary alternative

Wake up - You! wake up - You have a mission

Unless you want to be, what they want you to be

BUT!

YOU HAVE A MISSION

 

 

How Long

 

"Until the lions
have historical tale of Hunting
The history will always
Glorify the hunter"

When human being breaths confusion
anger erupts the mind
chances cannot be resisted
change is full of curiosity
high and low, corner to corner

How long, how long

How long am I - to be a monopoly of poverty
How long am I - to be a monopoly of pain
How long am I - to be victim of capitalist propaganda
How long am I - to work to be poor

How long, how long

The masses are crying in agony
living in the world of exploitation
smelling and tracing the human blood
from America to every where
who is creating the massacres
blood money, blood mercenaries

What is the item on the agenda?

no power on earth can kill
the will of people to live
people's education is the mirror
of the society, each one teach one
Operation of racism, class oppression
Is internationaly condemned

How long, how long

There is a need to change this situation
if we move forward as one
We are tired of poverty
We are tired of dying
Oh! Workers of the world
Now we know!
Rehearsals are over
People must govern
Now we know!
Confidence must be uphold
Not to have, but to be a government
is the point in time

How long, how long

How long is the time - for people's power
How long is the time - for distribution of land
How long is the time - for distribution of wealth
How long is the time - for you and I to do something

YES!! How long

How long, how long

 

 

 

We Plead Not Guilty

 
Privatisation! The pillar poison of capitalism
Children are dying crying every day
How can they survive
living in a miserable situation
The spoon is hungry
Dishes are making noisy in the kitchen
Please come out do something
Nokub’ yiphelelanga
Fighting privatisation
We plead not guilty
 
Where is drinking of our nature
Where is our daily bread
Reflection of trends
Is it forward gear, is it reverse gear
Baphel’ abantu
 
Fighting privatisation
We plead not guilty
 
Why fuming fiddling froging around
Is it commercialisation
Is it privatisation
Is it joint venture
Who is the horse, who is the rider
Oh! Baphin’ abantu
 
Fighting privatisation
We plead not guilty
 
Listen to the voice of wisdom
Listen to the cries of whirlwind
Where is the people’s organs
Where is power of the workers
Zigzag left, zigzag right, zigzag centre
On the left – people are dying because
they have nothing to eat
 
On the right – people are dying because
they eat too much
Confusion in the capitalist society
 
Baphel’ abantu – Baphin’ abantu
 
Waar is die mense?
Where are the people?
Fighting privatisation – we plead not guilty

 

 

 

The IMF

 

 

The medicine that turns people into Zombies
The medicine of capitalist trade
Why has Africa fallen into this mess
A mess over my land
A mess over my continent
A mess over my world

That is what the IMF is - A mess

The IMF is an Imperialist monetary fund
is an Imperialist misery fallacy
is an Imperialist mercenary force
Medicating the medicine to murder the masses

That is what the IMF is - A mess

The medicine for social destabilisation
The medicine for profit and privatisation
The pill for competition and conflict
The pill for collaboration and confusion
Swallowed for endless dollar bills

Let the IMF not rule the people
Let the IMF not fool the workers
Let the IMF not starve the masses

Workers - working for all
Workers - feeding them all
The IMF is the doctor that kills mercilessly

That is what the IMF is - A mess

Secret agreements that retrench workers
Conditions that freeze salaries
The dollars, that dismantle the state industries

That is what the IMF is - A mess

People are demoralised
They do things not because they like to
They do things because they have to
On the left people are dying because they have nothing to eat
On the right people are dying because they eat too much
Confusion in the capitalist society

That is what the IMF is - A mess

Yes! A mess

 

 

 

What Have We Done - Senzenina ?

 

 
It is funny, but no laughing at all
Many are poor
Many are without food
Many are without jobs
 
What have we done – senzenina?
 
The bosses are fat
The rich people are the bosses
They own factories
They own mines
they own wealth
They own the power of our existence
 
What have we done – senzenina?
 
The workers are hungry
The poor people are workers
They build houses, but they live in shacks
They make cars, but they die without owning one
They clean university offices, but never get education
They dig gold in the bowls of the earth, but get none
They cook food, but they eat dogmor
 
What have we done – senzenina?
 
The bosses are hiring and firing
They give workers the survival wages
They take the profits
it is cat and the mouse situation
The bosses are parasites sucking, sucking, sucking
The blood of the workers
 
What have we done – senzenina?
 
Workers are many
Bosses are few
Workers do all the work
Bosses live on profits
Break the chains united we stand
Socialism is the future, build it now
 
What have we done – senzenina?
 
Senzenina – what have we done ?

 

 

 

Solidarity Forever

 

 
I am human being and demoralised
I do things not because I like it to
I do things because I have to
I am separated from the soil and the tools
Chased away from the land law and labour
 
Solidarity forever
 
Revolutionary capacity to drive
Many different approaches
Ruler can’t rule the rulings
Deploy your forces in an effective way
 
Solidarity forever
 
Mobilise communities mobilise
Mobilise campuses mobilise
Mobilise workers mobilise
Mobilise women mobilise
 
Solidarity forever
 
Decolonialisation of mind is education in time
From poverty line to bread line
Let the red flag fly high again
Worker to worker
Country to country
 
Solidarity forever
 
Abolish brutality abolish
Abolish barbarism abolish
Abolish cabal-ism abolish
Abolish capitalism abolish
 
Solidarity forever
Thieves and invaders are suffocating the nation
Global villians are destroying humanity
Vampires are sucking the blood of industrial soldiers

 

 

 

Rise and Share

 
 

I am a human being and demoralised
I do things not because I like to
I do things because I have to
I am separated from the soil and the tools
 

Chased away from the land, Law and Labour
Capitalism, you are a monster
I am Universal Soldier, Combatant for Universal Mission
 

Rise and Share, Rise and Share
 

Workers let me talk to your being
Workers let me penetrate the essence of your being
Workers let me provoke your social being
 

Rise and Share, Rise and Share
 

You have nothing to lose except the chains of oppression and exploitation
Mountains of truth, mountains of realities
Oh milestone of Marx, Engels and Lenin
 

Rise and Share, Rise and Share
 

No more dancing around the truth
No more throws of blames around
Why camouflaging of laws?
Why the shdowing boxing?
 

Rise and Share, Rise and Share
 

Who ever come across them?
The Whole world was in thunderous joy
They know where the plight of the world is going to end
Workers seize the moment
Decaying egg shell is bursting asunder
 

(This poem is dedicated to the late Chris Hani and Joe Slovo)

 

 

 

What are we

 

We are born complete but unfinished
We constantly catching up with ourselves
We have arrived in an open imperfect world
we do not have a ready made world

That is what we are

We have no given relation with world
We produce tools to modify our physical environment
To bend the nature to our will
We cannot exist apart from the society
We are the part of the whole

That is what we are

There is no human meaning without activity
To sustain our on going biography of life
As co - producers of the world
Human existence is an ongoing act of balance

That is what we are
 

Culture is a totality of human products
You and I together we invent the tools and language
You and I together we can make a difference
If you want to know
You and I to gether we can shape and change the world

THAT IS WHAT WE ARE

 

 

 

Socialism Is The Future

 

 
Lies they have sneezed
Truth they have killed
Undertakers wait and confuse
Life is living bread is shared
Socialism is the future
They poison the water in order to kill the fish
They speak like saints and act like devils
They preach democracy and act like bureaucrats
The little island, the universal obsession
Threatens no one but is under siege
Socialism is the future
The blows of reactionaries are showering like hail
Why you shrink like rabbits in the storm
The final goal is yet to come
The victory is certain each one teach one
Socialism is the future
Declaration of point of departure
the aim is not dispute
The action is argument of means to the end
Struggle is victory
Guided revolution is humanity
Socialism is the future
Let the means to turn the tides
From Africa, Cuba to Russia
Keep the fire on
The world is full of misery
 
Socialism is the future
Build it now! Build it now!

 

		Selected International Poems