Dr. Charles Frederickson

Haggard Scarecrows (Somalia)


Blue Nile pyramid built top-down
Apex starting blocks triangular faces
Polygonal base instincts vanishing endpoint
Perpetrators Victims Bystanders calculated indifference

 

Untimely deaths from disease malnutrition
200,000 black African Muslims slaughtered
1.45 million displaced 500,000 more
In urgent need of assistance

 

Faceless rebels opposing government control
Rejected peace treaty bloodthirsty vengeance
Attacking homeless civilians dilapidated camps
Outlandish counter-insurgency by nature corrupt

 

Dubious military intelligence bombastic aircraft
Promoting Arab supremacy racist ideology
Perverse unholy ethnic cleansing power
Broker imbalance nomads versus settlers

 

Mass appeal looking other way
Avoiding confrontation taking sides intervention
Vicious suppression of inhuman wrongs
Shameless evasion of moralistic principles

 

Holier than Thou Shalt Not
Wadis drained seas of consciousness
Complex underground petrified roots twisted
Raising expectations starting from scratch

 

Empty pockets of resistance shortchanged
Politically unsustainable scorched earth policy
Low-lighting systematic rape looting pillage
Lackadaisical infrastructure eroding pyramidal base.