Liberating The Mind Before The Land Poem by Alem Hailu Gabre Kristos

Liberating The Mind Before The Land



From formative years
To adulthood serfs-baited
Servants ill-treated
From their means
Of existence alienated,
It is with hatred
From- serfdom- of- every-kind
-the- newly -unshackled heads'
Formatted!

Though their much-lamented land
Has come back to their hand
Tardy, their mind proves not free,
That is why they engage
In a killing spree!
Worse still death to all allies
Inclusive, they decree!

Although it sounds funny
They pay back gal
For received honey!

Also to cultural norms
And religious ideals blind,
Atavistic they slay
A woman and a child
In a way that is wild.

Oblivious for 9-months
They had a lodging
In a mother's womb
They want to blast it
With a bomb!
They want to shove in it
A spherical thorny wood
As far as they could.

Alive, they grill a man,
For idle or unskilled what
They can't do, he can!

In the name of God
Or religious sects,
Replete at this
Satan-released age,
They behead a man
Made in God's image! ///

Monday, May 2, 2016
Topic(s) of this poem: refugees
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
To Ethiopians that passed through such ordeals at different parts of the world and at its boarders, though hospitable Ethiopia has played a glaring role for the independence and freedom of enumerable countries!
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Alem Hailu G/kristos 02 May 2016

Thank you sir for the excellent feedback.You see we have to harness literature to fight out injustice and brutality!

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Kelly Kurt 02 May 2016

A powerful poem, Alem. The plight of these innocents has to be brought to the attention of every other person in the world.

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