BY KFLEEYESUS ABEBE
The ugly truth
We don’t want to hear
We don’t want to believe
There is no choice
There is no other way
There wouldn’t even be alternative
The way to the future
The path to peace
The step to grow
The road to democracy
The means to survival
The deed to be dignified
The call to be human
Is nothing but a commitment
It is to say “no”
We should know:
It is a goal-demanding courage
It is a fight against evil
But it is an avoidable
’cause it is a defining battle
A barrier we skip to the promise land
Like Lincoln fought against the South
We shall be resolute to face the evil
Like Lincoln, it should be our sacred duty
to preserve Ethiopian unity,
to defeat greed, animosity and irrationality
Like Lincoln abolish slavery
It is possible to win against ethnicity
Like Lincoln said: American aren’t enemies but friends
We also stand to say:
Ethiopians aren’t enemies but friends
The choice is to neutralize hatred
To crush illiteracy with education
To discipline the bully
Nothing but to pay all the cost
It is always “payable to the bearer on demand”
Till that day the evil keeping lurking
The day stays gloomy
We itch, the grief mounting
mounting, mounting, mounting
To push us to last resolution.
(*Adera can be roughly translated to entrust)
The Ethiopian Herald March 17/2023
