Kenneth Maswabi
The disordered order
Mankind is an expert in the field of the
disordered order
Through the years of turmoil and peace
Mankind has maintained his appetite
For this reckless philosophy
Keep the disorder inside the order
And chaos will not be seen
We saw this philosophy applied through
the Roman Dutch law
Keep the police well fed and the society
will behave
From the dusty corners of the planet
To the mangled dark alleys of the
industrialised world
Poverty was kept hidden
Inside the delicate eggshells of fragile
democracies
The disquiet was properly hidden inside
the peaceful facial expressions
The emergency of pandemics is not an
anomaly
Inside the disordered order of the
present world
We have mastered the art of hiding behind
our finger
We ignored the fact that the ripples of
chaos are breeding more chaos
We were satisfied with our new found
atmosphere of peace and prosperity
We were breeding monsters, from terrorism
to pandemics
We have more tsunamis coming our way
Unless we accept that this unspoken
philosophical state of affairs is broken
We will continue to nurse our wounds
We will continue to wallow in sorrow and
pain
We will host the winds of uncertainty
forever
We will not find the fibre of peace
inside the vastness of our consciousness
Poverty is mankind’s number one enemy
We have to dig it out of its burrows in our
homes
We have to eradicate it from the fragile
bodies of our children
We have to plant a sense of all for one,
one for all
Selfishness is Mankind’s downfall
©Kenneth Maswabi
