What stories were you told as a kid? Bedtime stories? 
The wall whispers to me "You'll be nothing! 
It's been rigged, see, the Earth is being pulled off
To show what lies beneath, and "They"
Want a crater beneath that." 

"They" sounds like a strange name for anybody. 
I hear "They" colonised African countries , 
Then "They" took all the resources, 
Then "They" kept Africa under 1 dollar. 
"They" have power. 

While "We" pilfer the poor's taxes, 
Build roads in an Oculus Rift, "We"
Mass-murder those who think different, 
Take off those brains so all stop thinking, 
Take off the teachers, the doctors, 
Lest one takes a needle to stitch one back together. 

"They" tell us what to do, and not wanting our welfare
Give "We" loans, and aid, and technology, and more
Well "They" want what's in our soil, 
And "We" sell it to them. 

Only you can't complain when you sell something can you? 
Like Mugabe seizing lands traded for weapons or more
Or Africans asking the return of their wares' descendants, 
Or at least some reparation, for the low price got on 
Their brothers: some sort of bonus for good performance? 
So you get to be paid double, and get back what you sold? 

When I hear that wall whispering, I think of the poem 
Dad told me to recite: "Mr Nobody" written by nobody. 
I guess it's easier to swing your sword at virtual windmills
Than at yourself when you are the source of all the trouble

And "We" still pilfer everything we own, 
Thinking what we own are rocks beneath the Earth, 
While the children are either buried in those rocks, 
Or their education forgotten till all actually become rocks.

(c) nyonglema