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THE SILENT KILLER.
This silent killer
Spawned in hell
Turns healthy men
To an empty shell.
lt ravishes the young
The old and the just
Making no exceptions
This savage lethal dust.
Thousands still die
As its cancer reaps
Men murdered to young
Their widow sadly weeps.
When barristers support
Men of medicine's lies
Justice wears a blindfold
Ignoring the righteous cries.
To all the rich bureaucrats
Who conspired in this misery
May you suffer in hell
Throughout all of eternity.
IN MEMORIAM
EDDIE Mc GINLAY.
KILLED BY ASBESTOS
2nd JULY 2003.
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COVER UP THE BLUE
Azure skies, arid plains; that still beauty
Breathtaking vast expansions of time
First impression on most of us
Hidden secret killer dust
Unseen fibre destroying lungs
Of impoverished peoples unsung
What air they breathe of fibres blue
Exposed for years as chidren young
Then Suddenly struck! pain attacking
Sad faces, pallor a greyish hue
And bureaucrats ignore their plight
Asbestuis okay! its asthma or TB
Surreal world of theirs to cover shame
Fat cats gaining with greed of gold
Workers! do they care of them
Women, children; men; starving sick
Killing masses by the score
More! More!! More and more
What can be done?
World environmentalists must impress
All nations North, East, South and West
Action now must be given
Saving victims an early heaven
And we must campaign on
Awareness high profile
The blue silent dust will blow across the plains meanwhile
30th. July 2003 - by ENIGMA FLAVIA
Composed on flight from Kimberley to Cape Town. Looking out of the window at the vast land and the devastation I had witnessed in the Northern Cape. How the blue asbestos clung to vegetation, continual airborne fibres. Exposed to this the sad fact is what chance has the population living in such an environment. The constant sound of wracking coughing, even behind the rich colour of skin that grey pallor, yet they smile and hope. Hope! God help them and greatly humbled was I. This I dedicate to Isaac Machonyane, I shall never forget his soulful eyes.
Isaac I interviewed on the ITN documentary " Real Life," series shown in August 2004.
Asbestuis! is how the South Africans spell and pronounce the word. |
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