The World's Wounds

I have moved on all the continents Continents, heaven and hell to experience Experience of happiness and sadness Sadness of all colors because of leaders’ carelessness Carelessness breeds evils because of lies Lies breaking peace to prompt armed conflicts Armed conflicts causing wounds to people People are wounded in hearts as women endure rape Rape sending children, men and women into desperation Desperation as there nowhere hospitals to see for help Help’s deficiency, causing victims to passing Passing of neglect, disease or hunger Hunger leading to a natural or artificial death Death after suffering lacerations Lacerations on the body, the heart and the mind The mind’s bleeding, the heart’s broken Broken and hopeless, people’s minds wander Wander and abandon the environment of the world The world is wounded but cannot cicatrize Cicatrization we expect soon, as the healer is to come Poem by N. Mugisho