The Promise

A child to be sent to the earth Through the loins of an octogenarian A faithful promise! Fretful and apprehensive Like a mother hen She took up the onus of creation To beget without delay the promised child; Anxiety of a mother! Few years later, The octogenarian now a centenarian Fathers two nations Now children of promise; A promise kept! Scions of royal stock Now maim and slaughter each other Pray and kill Pray and die; Products of one promise! Always on pilgrimage Praying and fasting In rivers of flowing innocent blood Why kill your brother? Mocking the promise! Our ancestors lament, They mourn for our ignorance They sob for the disunity between brothers Descendants of the promise Arise and unite oh ye offspring!