The Sooty Web

A poem about Official corruption, the whistleblower, and shoot the messenger

The Sooty Web

 

Seventeen years the gravel road

Choking on corruption dust

The blue dog on the passenger seat

The one eye of my trust

 

The messenger with secret spoken

Into cotton wooly ears

The silence of the lamb my Sheppard

Slaughtered by your fear

 

Bureaucracy in a backward spin

The grinding of the cog

The can of oil that’s on the boil

Let lay the sleeping dog

 

The threat that stirs the dog my friend

The dawning of the proven

Your sticky feet your sooty web

The evil that you've woven