Friday, June 4, 2010

Cries of our children, cries of our immediate generations

By Atok Dan Baguoot 

Cries of our children, our own blood 
Cry with loud voices 
Cry with tears in sorrow 
Cry languishing in sorrow 
Cries of our children, cries of our immediate generations 

Cry for their doom future, cry for their lost hopes 
Cry with their hoarse voices, lamenting for help 
Cry for their future ruined, cry for their heroic martyrs 
Cry for their fallen heroes, cries of regrets 
Cries of remorse cries for direction 

Cry for their forgotten heroes 
Cry for their negative vanished 
Cry for what took them 
Cry for their whereabouts 
Cry, cry, and cry for their mismanaged efforts 

Where is the fate of our children 
Where is the sole gold that our fore parents died for 
Why do you let us in continual suffering 
When do you come for our rescue 
We are the loiterers 
We are the prostitutes 

We beg them they who heads the train for the destination 
We beg them for leniency
We beg them for mercy 

Gone are days of bushes
Gone are days of heroism 
Gone are days of appreciation
Gone are days of recognition 
Gone are days of their efforts
Gone are days of sleepless nights 
Gone are ancient days of togetherness, 

Comes are days of disparities 
Gone are days of tattered clothes 
Comes are days of loneliness in the glitteriest 
Gone are nostalgic days
Come are days of hatred 

Predators salvage on us
Predators benefit from our fore parents’ efforts 
Preys were we together
Predators are they alone 
Pretty are they with their prettiest 
Preach us the wisdom needed 
Preach us honesty to manage our affairs 
Preach us other than none but wholesomeness 
Preach us our oneness, the only black family 
Pride of our only entity 
Pride of none but one family 

Diminish is our only incurable disease called T-R-I-B-E. 
A demon that depicts us far apart from each other 
Destroyer of equity and equality 
A disease that grabs our unison family voice 
Dislikes our God-given diversity 
Dislike it the disease that denies transparency

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