Ode To The Kidnapped Cuban Doctors Poem by alexander opicho

My heart is the throne of a song

Coming out an ode to the two sons of Cuba

Kidnapped by the Al-Shabaab in Kenya,

I salute them, the two conscious souls of Cuba

And the rest of you Medical revolutionaries from Cuba,

for the virtue of love, care and selfless touch to the sick

you often held and served to the scum of Kenya's earth

in the thanks poor world of the avaricious nation

That Shameless society of my stomach first

That hatched a plot to snare and capture you

Dear sons of Cuba on succor missions

To redeem, safe and protect the desperate lives

Of the medically hopeless desert folks,

wallowing in the mire of ever sick hospitals

and healthcare systems of their hopeless lands

For the centuries gone before with no iota of taste

Of the luxury in the name of anything qualified physician.



Uff! Al-Shabaab, kill not them that are out to save lives

Abandoning their full moon-shone land to come

Bestriding geographies of the dark villages

Down to the Lowly in the sun-stricken sand-hills

Ridden by religious crocodiles on false pretexts

That they want a world state in Submission to God

Leaving mankind in life of tensions, not knowing when

The god of pious crocodiles will un-leash another massacre

On women and children in choir-girl innocence, killing them all

For no better reason but religion gone broke of reason.



God in truth is on the side of those that endeavor to heal

Cure the sick, feed the starved and clothe the naked,

Not on the side of those that kill the un-armed,

Bragging around that they are the holy warriors,

yet no war is holy, it is mere terror on the harmless

Only peace is holy, peace and only peace is holy,



Hence a salute to the Cuban medical warriors

And to all potential martyrs all over Kenya, tormented by

The threat of capture by the jihadists that battle terror and fear,

In the name of yearning for a religious state, Islamic state

Not knowing that religion is not possible minus doctors,

A virtue enough to leave doctors live beyond snares of terror

And terrorism, the highest stage of religious irrationality.



By- Alexander Opicho

(From, Lodwar, Kenya.)

Mail-opichoalexander@gmail.com