Let us go one step far
Let us fight a bit far,
Though to indulge in
A lost battle
With an unjust cause
Subjects’ lives to mar,
Let us set ablaze another war.
Scarifying youths
For the sake of scarifying,
In a show of misogyny
Coercing mothers
To send to the front
Up to 5 sons, going to school
Is whose wont,
Bellicose, braggart
The government
What is more, neighbors
Let us confront.
By nature a fox,
Let us press ahead
With acting a hawkish ox.
Let us project
Another face,
As governments’ soldiers
We craftily scapegoat
Our rapist nature
The gullible global community
Could not trace.
Under hypnotic spell
It can’t view us
From the aspect
For women, children’s life
We have no respect.
BY ALEM HAILU
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD THURSDAY 26 MAY 2022
