For Richard Tellinghast
They shout of existential threat
Of their right to exist all the time
Yet, they are an existential threat
Denying others that right to exist
What kind of people are these?
Who see other people as not fit to live
They stole others' land and continue to steal
They occupy others' territories and continue to do so
They keep them under murderous siege
Denying them every basic necessity of life
No medicines. no schools not even clean water
No electricity, no building materials not even cherries
Yet, they shamelessly shout the song of freedom
They beat the drums of high moral values and standards
Where is freedom and where is morality?
Only Uncle Sam and his cronies could tell
They attack with full force at slightest provocation
They care not killing and maiming women and children
Not even the United Nations is spared of their madness
Yet the most powerful democracies world over are mute
Oh great powers, bear witness to the senseless killings
Bear witness to the arrogance of this murderous State
Bear witness to the flight of the innocent and powerless
And shall also bear witness to what injustice and inaction leads.
Kaduna, June 7 2010
