BY ALEM HAILU
I) Ingratitude(Sudan)
Though all along
The time line
You have been
A good neighbor
Also by us
In our internal peace
Maintaining endeavor,
Subtly we have
To stab you
In the back
True to
Our hidden wish
And invisible hand
Tranquility
When you lack.
BY ALEM HAILU
Unless at this
Historic juncture
We take a chunk from
Your borderland
How could another
Opportunity we stand?
You see
In a full-scale battle
We may buckle.
Because Ethiopia is
A valor-marked land,
God is by whose side
By his rules
As citizens abide.
Pendulous by our nature
Ingratitude is our attitude.
Some of us in Sudan’s
Military wing,
Mercenaries, proxy war
Yearned to swing
Affected by
Hypersomnia to
A retaliatory
Hornet sting.
II) Gratitude (Djibouti)
A building up
Internal tension
In a given nation
No doubt on neighbors
Could have
A domino effect
As proved
Scenarios to date.
By squashing
The TPLF junta
With power-lust
Corruption, ethnocentrism
Obsessed
A regional challenge
You have addressed.
Our most honorous
Military-feat
Confer on your
Top General we shall!
Gratitude marks
Our attitude.
A friend in need
Is a friend indeed
Good neighbors
For good end
Backscratching
We have to heed.
The Ethiopian Herald 19 January 2021
