The Baby of the Poor

By Emmanuel Uduak-Obong Esther

O! Hail the baby of a poor mother

Taken captive and left to mourn

Behold the little one that saw his mother murdered

Tears in face, second to none.

Demons everywhere even on streets

How can you kill a mother in the arms of her child?

No peace for the less all is strict

As sun and gun grows wild

I will go deeper, but have you seen our land?

The poor is prey to the rich

Even by the sweat and the works of their hands

Now, the poor drops blood to cross the bridge

Abandon you say, but there's more to it

Have you seen the poor in the circle of the rich?

Watch well there's never a chair to sit

The poor is slave and never made rich

The lions and the leopards scream

O! Allow the poor to breathe

Yet their laughter flows by like stream

The poor is drown and can't breathe

Metal rattling sound around all corners

Sound of war and never of peace

Preaching like the fore runner

I mean the beheaded John the Baptist

Do you remember the era of Lord Frederick?

Were mothers not killed right before the children?

Were children not taken from parents without trick?

Was tears from different eyes not made to fall as rain?

The prey will always be hunted

The hunted will always be the prey

But, let the jungle be in peace to avoid being hunted

For as there are hunters, they always be a prey.

The lions and leopards will always devour

The poor will always be crushed under their feet

But even the jungle has its appointed hour

When the hunted rise and the predators retreat.

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