21 Questions Poem by joseph kaphuka

why

sometimes i wonder

why the sky is blue, and if there is heavens up above.

why the rich get richer while innocent kids starve.

what if it snowed in africa while the rest of them die witt aids.

sometimes i wonder why we have days and nites.

why do brothers let the bottle control thei lives.

why i gotta fight witt my wife.

and why does her touch make my heart beat faster.

why she hit that blunt when she wants to b a mother.

same game, same book but different pages.

why they treat us like animals and lock us up in cages

she was only thirteen, so why she get pregnant and shes barely a woman.

why i gotta b a daddy and i`m barely a man.

not part of my plan but i gotta play my hand.

and why ol` girl strippin and suckin jus 2put a plate on the table.

why they send guns to africa and they xpect peace.

what if they caught bin laden and there was no war in the middle east.

why he sleeping witt another man and he claims its in his nature.

whats the point of loving her if she thinks u hate her.

why she get cancer and shes only 22,

why she had 2die.

why do we smile at birth and cry at death.

sometimes i jus wonder why