Ebola Outbreak
i heard another person in my village
died today, we didn’t dare touch
the body, his organs had bled out
there are no white people here
white as ghosts, they are going home
my friends in America tell me
we are not on the news, only Jewish
people fighting muslims, but
don’t they know we all come from Africa?
i heard the super-nationals took this
virus into a lab and created a way
to rid itself of the old people of civilization
if Ebola spreads maybe the world
will not remember what it means
to come from tribes that your mother came from
once, we left Africa and now we leave her
to her misery, well you know what
maybe fiscal ebola is just around the corner
for people who live in America, people
who live their lives on debt, credit, profiting
from heatlh insurance, death insurance, the works
but the fact is, I don’t think this is going away
I think Ebola is here for a very specific reason
The world is ready for another plague
to hemorrhage like a zombie, it’s not news?
not if you are black, if your body fluids
don’t stain your white skin, not when
it’s on another continent, that you don’t have
relatives in, don’t call it a “black death”
just because it originates in bats from Africa
there isn’t a vaccine because the world
intentionally doesn’t wish for our well-being
you say it isn’t airborne, it doesn’t spread easily
because we are somehow dirty, and you are clean
because you are somehow rich, compared to our poverty?
Wuji Seshat 
I am white yet my heart still bleeds for you. I have given up watching the news – if something is bad enough it shows up on social media…
That’s so true, it’s making social media quite unpleasant though. I see more propaganda and human stupidity on Facebook now than I do on CNN, which is a recent trend…
I don’t think there is anywhere on our imperfect earth that is free from some form of propaganda. I think that social media is becoming the conscience of the world and that it draws attention to things others want to forget or ignore, like your post or the Nigerian girls that went missing, sold into slavery. The Korean ferry and Malaysian airline made the news but 27 million slaves, no not really… That I find truly shocking
everytime time i try to leave a comment your blog goes haywire! love your work! deep bow for the piece on ebola. my brother of the sacred packe! i am
going to re-blog it!
that’s dawolf! them dark furred wolves ain’t got Big pharma on their side…
❤ u bro!
Raw and heartwrenching work, Wuji. I love the perspective of this.
Heartbreaking and real!!
Yes I think there is a slim chance it could spread out of Africa this time.
I think you could create poetry out of diarrhea. You are that much of a master. You are the only one in the world who has written a poem about Ebola.
well sometimes I do sacrifice quality for top or substance, this I guess is such a case.
Oh my friend, my comment was a compliment! To create beauty out of dreck is why you are an angel among men (as in humanity).
I know, I just feel like the level of the poetry when I’m writing about a cause tends to falter and it disappoints me. But thanks for the encouragement…