I Cry Blood......... Poem by Merlin Mwaura

When a neighbour turns on you,
strips your family into pieces,
tears up your home.
Takes your love,
your hand,
and more appendages
you watch them turn to menacing beasts,
their hearts turn a sickening black,
watchin' in horor, as the last warm breath,
emits from you,
with a resonating, resounding cry,
'why? ....'
'why? ....'

FRIEND: I have lost my mother,

'why? ...'
[sobs] I have lost her in her cries...
I did not want to hear them,
they scorched my soul, but
my feet kept running.
I wanted to, [save her]
I needed to, [save me]
But i had to,
there was none other,
but left a choice,
even my love.
'why? ...'

WITNESS: She lost her mother,

'why? ...'
She was my bride,
my tears engraved with her blood,
as my brothers, went even with the cries...
to tear and turn on souls.
I watched as she ran,
she wanted to, [love me]
she needed to, [leave me]
but she had to,
from my love,
from the blood.
for mine and her sake.
'why? ...'

NEIGHBOUR: He watched as she lost her mother,
she was his bride,
and he was her love.
They were the world,
and her mother their God.
She approved of them,
we took from her,
and she left her blood.
He watched as she left,
His heart never the same,
Hers, never again.
He wanted to, [save her]
He needed to, [let her]
and he had to watch her.
run in the other direction.
'why? ...'

They are, all tainted souls
tainted and tinted souls,
and I only cry,
not for my love,
not of my mother,
but of once upon a time.
when my eyes were not known,
to rivers of blood,
lost loves,
lost life.
I wanted to, [say this]
I needed to, [convey it]
and I had to, cry blood....