BY MENGESHA AMARE
Competent, civic minded,
Responsible as well as candid,
Posterity has to be produced,
BUT HOW?
Must be requested right now,
So the saying stipulates,
The utterance declaims,
Yes, charity begins at home,
Honesty and innocent can boom,
In a given single room,
Where a family is housed,
Whether it is good or bad,
A generations is needed,
For this ruined world,
Full of sham and treachery,
Nepotism, partisan and bribery,
Posterity is needed,
With optimistic gesture,
Good will, and rational thinker,
Cooperative mind devoid of slander, flatter,
Yes, consecrated endeavor is the source of,
Smart generation,
Ranging from germination,
To some sort of graduation,
Keeping the pattern of evolution,
It’s time to shape the generation,
Correct the future,
Make posterity,
That condemns isolation,
Corruption, maladministration and poverty,
With sense of belongingness,
Avoiding cursed spirit, being jealous,
It is time to make posterity,
Taking over the nation,
With its future,
Whole identity and full structure,
Couple with appealing behavior,
It is right now,
BUT HOW?
Families, guardians or close relatives,
Have to be role models,
In showing practical actions,
Beyond mere utterance,
Valuing essence of a country,
Like a bountiful tree,
The inimitable worth of fellow citizens,
Tell them to avoid temporal sentiment,
Putting aside the permanent,
Instead the posterity has to be told,
About all the good,
Above all fear of God,
Inform unequivocally,
About material wealth,
Others’ is others’
The posterity must know that,
What is gained bucketing self-sweat,
Is incomparably sweet!
Make the generation, make the posterity,
With sense of amicable tie,
With fraternity,
Championing solidarity over solitary,
Either in civil society, in entire community,
Or in the military,
At shanty houses, in the palace,
In the planet at every place,
Posterity can be made,
Generation can be shaped,
It rather demands commitment,
Selflessness and virtuous spirit,
To make the world bright,
It is inevitable,
It is natural and expected,
To come up with wrong deed!
Focus on how to make it good,
We had better look into ourselves,
Before criticize others,
If we ourselves know the direction,
It would be easy to make the generation!!!
THE ETHIOPIAN HERALD FRIDAY 27 JANUARY 2023
