OIL DOUENS

He who started

the douen movement

Must continue

And accept

That dual motives

Have dual outcomes

One company

Same stakeholders

One payroll yet

opposing agendas,

For oil money

Future legacies

and trust

Visions  forward

Marred by

Footprints backward

Errors made

Selfish motives

And blatant plots

And like douens

Of folklores

They repeat

the same flaws

So forward

yet backward

Too backward

to forward

They part…

Copyright©2018 by Camille Caliscia Patrick

When Oil Spills Over ;When Gas Ignites 

CASTING SHADOWS

Tendering 

In midday sun

Transparent bids

parade around

Only to cast shadows

when bids are done

With Scope of works variations

Bids like blind shots

Hit  bullseye

When procurement officers

Turn two blind eyes

As  bribes are passed

To give contractors bly

But as light of sun

Alters the crude

One day

These riggers we will sue

For casting shadows

At  future dawn’s hue

Copyright©2018 by Camille Caliscia Patrick

When Oil Spills Over;When Gas Ignites 

TO FLAMES,NOT SACRIFICE

To flames

Not sacrifice

Good men

gave their lives

Two weeks in

two weeks out

on a platform

Between fears

and waves

Where breadlines

Can ignite quick

fiery graves

To flames

Not sacrifice

Rig workers

Give their lives

With limited

communication

And threats of

pirate attacks

When oil

money flows

These will not

retract

To fear,

out there

Nor flames,

in here

At FCCU

where 1 died and

17 were injured

In 91 not 2

Nor on berth #5

In 1985

Where 14 good workers

Lost their lives

To flames!

Not sacrifice

Flaming fires

of greed

Flaming corruption

not need

Hidden secrets

Which flare

the respect

of good men

out here

Who gave their lives

In the name

of sacrifice

While the flames

of greed

Still burns

in the deeds

Of some

Yet unknown

Copyright©2018 by Camille Caliscia Patrick

When Oil Spills Over;When Gas Ignites