JOBURG – Isaac Mbilini, an inmate at Leeuwkop Maximum Prison who is serving a sentence for armed robbery, writes this poem titled, Crime:
Crime
You are a serious crisis to humanity
When we speak of you we remember senseless acts against
Law-abiding citizens. Today there are people who are disabled
Because of you, many lives are lost under You
Crime
Even children, women, grannies are raped, killed and Mutilated
What a merciless monster you are
There is no way you can be justified
You traumatise and leave victims in a terrible state
Today some lost husbands, some lost fathers
We hear cries of widows and orphans, neighborhoods are not safe
through the terror you are
Crime
You are negative to the economy of the country
You are catastrophic to many lives and a heinous torture
to the society in which innocent blood is being spilled every day
You are a bad stigma to those who got involved in you
Wounds you inflict with no intention to heal
Why these robberies, hijackings, murders, break-ins and rapes
in which you, crime, are behind?
You can’t be satisfied as a way of earning a living, at the cost of
hard-working people and as sad as it is, you even find those who
are supposed to fight this scourge involved in
Perpetrating this heinous act
Because crime you destroy
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