Copenhagen - Mbella Sonne Dipoko's Last Poem

Mbella Sonne Dipoko wrote this poem three days before his death and it was published in the same issue of The Post Newspaper that announced his passing six days later.

It was foretold long ago
That after Noah's deluge
The next destruction of the world
Would be by fire
And can't you feel the heat building up already,
The global warming up?
 
And so to fulfill the prophecy
Copenhagen is going to be
Just some more hot air
Presaging the sparks that would turn
Into the flames in which the world will be consumed
And then out of the ashes of ecocide capitalism
It won't be Christ on His second coming presiding
On Judgment Day
But Karl Marx returning like a revolutionary phoenix
Out of the ashes of the busting bubbles
Of the lopsided economies
Of our over-heated world

Comments

[Drsugar]

Yes, sir, indeed
So much hot air going on in Copenhagen
And nothing being done or agreed

Your prophecy is already happening

[Wirndzerem GB]

a prophetic, apocalyptic, ecocritical poem that immerses actuality in its real poetic perspective. one just wishes the world powers gave us and our poets more reasons to be less pessimistic and less cynical abt their climate business from kyoto to copenhagen...because really the whole globe is warming up and capitalist factories are madly racing the more to pump up more ecocidal smoke to the god of mammon! common eco-wisdom is not their staple!