To their God Haile Selassie Rastafarians do pray <br />But as a mere mortal his remains do lay <br />When he was Emperor of Ethiopia millions of hunger died <br />Whilst the good life he and his friends and his family enjoyed <br />The word God to one like Selassie ought not to apply <br />And why people make Gods out of mortals I do wonder why <br />He owned the majority of the wealth of his Country whilst his people lived in dire poverty <br />That hardly is Godlike would you not agree? <br />Compassion for his Country's Poor a Godlike person would show <br />But Haile Selassie was not that way as far as I do know <br />He did not share the Country's wealth amongst his people of him what does this say <br />That he was a mere greedy mortal flawed in every way <br />According to Rastafarians Haile Selassie is God <br />Though he never did help the poor and the downtrod.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/haile-selassie/
