Thursday 10 January 2013

…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

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