POETRY

ETHIOPIA
By Fereja Yisegu
Nov 8, 2003
What a pain has emerged from your glistening history

Created foes who are green with envy

Isn’t it odd history of uniqueness has produced many enemies?

Shockingly caused loads of wars

A great deal of bloodshed and tears

Not for years, decades but for centuries

If you have a true friend

Your splendor should be enchanting

But regrettably you have had none

Nonetheless, your enemies are too many

Thanks to God!

But, they usually ended up in defeat for their own pity

You always prevail over them, eventually

With your solid sprit, endurance and persistency

So, Ethiopia

After you triumphed all those horrible wars

You encounter irrational and a bitter pill to swallow

It is quite unbelievable what I observe right now

Dizzying for my emotional aptness

When I see frustration all over your face?

Sunken eyes and weaken body immersed in deep sadness

Every new day you look weaker

How a nation that had won the great wars with spear and shield

Unable to excavate water and unable to make bread

How a country who had born countless brave men

Unable to give birth again!

Unable to give birth again!

Unable to give birth again!

Tell me Ethiopia, please?

And let my agony appease

Who loosed your apron and torn up your dress

And ultimately uncovered you to be obscene

Put you down for a shameful scene

On your enemies TV screen

Who turned you to be the worst place on earth?

Through the hands of your own off springs

What quarantined horrible place! You become Ethiopia

Infected with a virus of oppression and unfairness

Your children run away from you

In anguish, apprehension and sadness

Tell me Ethiopia

You had children who had been Vigilante and wise

Strong enough to uphold your greatness

Charismatic, prudent and audacious

When the intruder came to occupy your land

They were as angry as a tiger

The kings and their domains altogether

But now, your children are carrying out the reverse

They are conflicting, immature and visionless

Uncompromising and gutless

Blatantly obliterate your historical status

What a weakness

I was born to witness

A sermon of tribalism and Provincialism

Bizarre teaching of amorality nothing worthy

Except weakening and diminishing your unity

To measure this stupid notion of distraction

I could not find a parallel history

A generation trying out to erase the noble of his own

What is curse more than looking at each other?

In mistrust, lack of sympathy and in a vengeance temper.


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