All Things New

Newness now seems same old same old

  With no welcome change in sight

Since Mugabe’s bill of goods sold

  Zimbabwe can scarce run right

Whitewash covered up with whitewash

  Cannot cleanse his scorched earth hand

Blackened by rank racist backlash

  Birthing policies ill-planned

Crippled companies fear closure

  Hard-earned assets being stripped

Regime still eludes exposure

  Cronies mostly stay tight-lipped

Agriculture beckons starkly

  Warns investors to beware

Forced to peer through glasses darkly

  Wondering what’s really there

Shifting goalposts cause confusion

  Where’s Zim’s final referee

Games in games spawn disillusion

  Highlighting hypocrisy

Threats tied tight to non-compliance

  New years or five years from now

Still sow seeds that sprout defiance

  If justice is forced to bow

Calendars may mark time’s changes

  But their cycles can’t create

Or control tyrants’ rampages

  Time and tide may have to wait

Till eternal words will echo

  And mankind will know they’re true

Promised He who holds tomorrow

  Behold I make all things new

                     © Duane Udd

                       2^nd Jan 2014