THE MESS OF DEATH
(By Komene Famaa)
Death’s
Dark armies
Darken all around
For what an empire
Or a prison
That’s a question everlasting
Brave against brave
Equal against equal
Sword against sword
Shield against shield
No, no, these are not the answer
Death’s
Dark armies
With sharp terrible weapons
Equipped [fully]
Attack today
Seeking the weak
And the unarmed
What’s the result then?
Death’s
Dark armies
Decorate themselves
With the heads of the innocent children
Around their necks
And dress themselves
With mutilated arms
Of the helpless
Around their waist
What kind of offering is this?
The pointed sword of unkindness
Extracting mercilessly thousand of souls
From the living body of innocents
To whom are they offering?
The ritual of the internal security Task Force you are dancing today
Is it for devastation or regeneration
Wild in the blood of demons
Mother KawaBari
Couldn’t distinguish
Between friends and foes
And Lord stricken by AIDS
Lies fallen alone
On undulated hills among heaps of sand of Bane
What has happened now?
Obedient to his overflowing current of blood
Everything has gone away
Our civilisation
Built over the centuries
Therefore, oh creator
Out of this bloody stream
What kind of earth
Will you make anew?
To be made
After your own shadow
With your own breath
Tell me
What kind of living being
That would be
Posing yourself today as a brave
In this bloody stream of mercilessness
Tell me
The seed you are sowing
And carefully nursing
What kind of plant
That would turn out,
Then the bloody stream
Will Okuntimo come and sail the Ark
When all the living beings
Are drowned in the overflowing stream of blood
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