…AND THE DOVE SUNG

Insecurity continued to rise in a once peaceful nation until all hell broke loose. Negative ethnicity, religious, social, political differences amongst others fueled terrible hatred amongst the people and this caused major divisions on our nation. When finally civil unrests broke out, they were genocidal and they run unabated until a full scale civil war resulted with an everlasting devastation upon our society.

…AND THE DOVE SUNG

Corpses everywhere lay so scattered

By them the whole city was littered

The city was overwhelmed by an aura of gloom

Negative Ethnicity had literally sealed our doom

The result; we even had a very segmented police and army

And this nurtured in our nation a horrible internal enemy

Ethnicity to our dear nation was so sinister

And civil unrest began some days before Easter

Members of different social classes descended upon each other

Everybody seemed to be baying for the blood of one another

People everywhere seemed to shun all forms of brotherhood

There was no peace but war only in every neighborhood

Grisly acts occurred in every corner of our dear town

Buildings were looted and bombed and burnt down

There were even rumors of cannibalism

There were horrible acts of vandalism

One haberdasher was slaughtered like a goat

And he drank his blood he who cut his throat

Upon seeing me he confiscated my video recorder

Saying my action was against a certain civic order

Many of my fellows were murdered in cold blood

And on a certain street, blood flowed like a flood

There was no more the fundamental freedom of expression

National broadcasts only served to increase the tension

The war; no one won and no one lost

But the results were historically the worst

Peace reigned only when there was none to battle

And for the remnants there was no where to settle

And the dove sung but a sepulchral dirge

There was nothing else it could manage

Compare with the article KENYA INSECURITY: The Gathering Storm.
Courtesy of the Rising Sun