Roaming Raven

OGUNLABI OLAJIDE YUSUF-NativePen 015 ROAMING RAVEN TIME OF THOUGHT:10:15PM DATE OF THOUGHT:2:12:2011 Where from here Art thou heading to? On errand? I believe Oh wait and hear I have a message for them Branch up there Tell "them" for us That "they" have done us evil Tell "them" their conscience is failing And we are fainting of waiting Tell "them" They vowed and swore Vowed to wipe our tears Swore to stand in for us through seasons Not to make it flow the more Ask "them" why they idle up there While our land is wasting away With our throat dried out of thirst And our stomach twists daily of hunger Tell "them" They are the leaf hoppers That eats up our green land Let "them" know We are angry because of hunger And they are cursed by what they have caused us Tell "them" Their deeds makes our women a widow mother And orphan of our innocent little children Can peace and happiness ever be theirs? For they can never tell What hunger can do Hunger is a thorn That makes a clear eyes turn red-hot For they can never tell Hunger makes a feeble hands to shoot an arrow. Tell "them" that the blanket that should give us warmth is an abode to bedbugs.