Hopeless Brown Envelopes Poem by Kenneth Maswabi

Hope is meticulously placed and sealed inside brown envelopes
Carried along the path of unemployment
Hungry youths eager to board the gravy train
And eat from the front tables

Hope, the eternal light
Wrapped under the burden of our despair
Hidden from the eyes of compassion
Hope, our peace and freedom
Locked inside the prison of greed

The youths with their heavy load of hopelessness
Are ever searching for the rays of hope
Under the canopy of poverty
Along the path of starvation
Inside the well of alcohol and drugs
Hope, our rescuer and master
Has nothing to offer at the moment