MAMA AFRICA MOURNS- Daniel Arkoh Fenyi

My children

All family and kindred

I walk with bitterness

Because you are visionless.

I offered you hope

Thinking that you will cope

But you and corruption have hooked

And ignored what the Holy Writ booked.

I remember my great sons

Who sacrificed their blood in tonnes

Kwame Nkrumah, Patrice Lumumba, and others.

They had great powers

The power of love and commitment for country.

But today, in less than a century

I am tattered

And the hope I offered is shattered

Through greedy and selfish leaders

Who only seek to kill their haters

And dehumanize the people

Because they are feeble.

I am bleeding

And I call on all who are sleeping

Wake up and fight

Fight and Fight and Fight!

Children are dying of hunger

And that is a danger

On the future generation.

Am tired of such abomination,

Women are black, beautiful and nicely carved

But they are starved

The kitchen is empty

And their stomachs are empty.

Men have no money to buy and sell

Who can they tell?

Nobody seems to care anymore

Walking aimlessly in my corridor.