their skin tight browned bodies scurry below
dust swirling in a bubbling dry hurricane
the shiny coins won trump the panting
when the moon’s shadow halts the digging
princes dethroned departed with British notes
kings rocked the cradle a garden’s birthplace
a continent of treasures plundered now breaking
stones and sticks rule over children’s groans
of the diamonds lost hold the wealthy to count
shut out the glare the faulted man stammers
the child’s blood on the mineral crops grown
all blinded just to run at thirty emoji’s a mile