Poetry with Ms Anamoli Meraki

Last month, TSOTA spoke to Sheffield-based poet Ms Anamoli Meraki. You can read the interview and a original poem here. This month, we follow up with a second piece of her work entitled ‘Fire and Flames’.
 

Fire and Flames

It’s always fire that gets the blame

Never the ones who ignite the flames

Like the government funded initiatives; igniting flames of hatred

But instead of being banned; it’s spread, accepted and even celebrated

 

The wolves at the top selecting our fittest to fight

In wars they didn’t start, where they risk losing their lives.

Cult leaders spewing poison-laced sermons to their congregations

Creating kids with fire up their arses, picket signs in their hands and being forced to sing anti gay songs

 

When the truth of the gospel is: God is love.

We’ve got to stop spreading fires ignited from them up above.

Cos it’s corruption you see, they ignite the fires then stand back and watch

As we become their infected, blistered, flaming, chargrilled flock

 

Branded like cattle, by the markings of their vicious scolds

And before we realise it, we’ve got smoke choking our sold-out souls

And it’s always the fire that gets the blame

Never the ones who ignite the flames

 

So next time you feel your soul is on fire

Let it be from a burning passion inside ya.

Burn bold and bright and let the furnace roar

And like iron, create something, solid, strong and pure

And remember if following the orders of another

You ensure that the fires they ignite sit well within ya

 

Don’t allow yourself to become another dangerous arsonist

By spreading hate fuelled fires ignited by the ‘elitists’

Cos to the elitists as they are often called

You’re just a pawn in their game of lies, fires and wars

 

And it’s always the fire that gets the blame

Never the ones who ignite the flames

So be true to yourself and the fires within you

Because those are the fires you are born to attend to.

 

© Ms Anamoli Meraki 2015

 

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Meraki | Hagglers Corner| 5th December

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