The Will
(by Sahlu Bekele - Toronto)
They were out in the field
Roaming together
To search and discover
The things that matter
Like grass, like water
That made their lives better
There were monkeys and donkeys
Somewhat bizarre but a possible mix
There were sheep and goats
Relatives and cousins
There were chicken and eagles
Same family but enemies
There also were buffalos
In the jungle in the plains
But there also were foxes and wolves
Hyenas and wild dogs
The predators and the carnivores
Everyone was out in the field
Tending to their need
While most were grazing the grass
Others were waiting for a chance
While most neglected the danger
Others waited for their dinner
Mobilized by their hunger
Specially the hyena
The tireless observer
Of animal behavior
Was waiting patiently
To attack suddenly
While the field seemed tranquil
It wasn’t safe still
And peace was about to crack
With a hyena strike
Silence was broken
Peace was shaken
Safety was forgotten
Survival uncertain
For the grazing masses
Of peaceful animals
It’s shameful and embarrassing
When one hyena chases
One thousand lives
The herbivores running for life
The carnivores setting the strife
Here chaos, there chaos
Everywhere chaos
Total confusion total turmoil
Fills the air, fills the plains
To the advantage of the killers
In this drama in this course
There appeared a heard of buffalos
Organized and formidable force
Never scared of the hyenas
Fought back with zeal
In unison, with will
Stood their ground
Since they found
What mattered most
Wasn’t in numbers but in the will
The will to cooperate
The will to associate
The will to stand together
The will to do the job
And peace was restored
And the hunters were hunted
And the preys breathed a sigh of relief
And life went on as usual
Thanks to collective defense
Of the buffalo force
Because one needs the whole
And the whole needs the one
To succeed to win
One has to be twin
This business of ours
Needs conviction, needs passion
To keep our being, to save the nation
To take Ethiopia in the right direction
From this generation to that generation¨
To the subjugated community of uncertainty. THE GENESIS CURSE!
By Fretsidiq Fekade
We were told the story
Of the beginning of time,
A slice of eternity,
And its tantalizing mystery.
strained in the realm of uncertainty;
Man equivocated,
Yet, define the indefinable,
Obscure the unknown Eternal. ( G.I AM )
Semantic and science omitted essence.
Religions besieged by a leap of faith.
The mother of all bodies
Limited unjustly to its forms.
Icons and symbols
Serve to mystify otherwise.
The marvelous things of the universe;
Immanent and Transcendental,
Knowable yet mystical,
Punish human intelligence for eons.
Who did conjure up the spirit,
When it was sluggish and inert.
To know the unknown;
The unseen and hidden,
Where no points of reference given.
Who set metric system
For the naked mind to measure, and
As to how creation came to being.
Who did the creator;
Omniscient, Omnipotent, and
Omnipresent Being, whisper to:
Fire, wind, Earth, water-or
KJV, Einstein , Plato, or Aristotle?
The mystery of creation
coupled with awe and elation.
Something is felt.
Its grounds enigmatic yet.
Needs not clarification
But asks for explanation.
The genesis’ curse
Invokes imagination.
Beyond the micro and the macro,
(minuscule to galaxies )
The depth and the height,
The size of all creation,
To know the unknown self,
Shall “the GREAT I AM”
Unfolds the matrix.
And the genesis curse better redeem itself.
AMEN!
ULTIMATUM
By Fretsidiq Fekade
The enemy with in,
The talking insane
Crowned with deceit
Transgressor and reprobate
disgraced and repugnant
Cold blooded tyrant
Dwell in lies and deception
Promote political prostitution
With deep rooted hatred
Have incarcerated and murdered
Committed hideous capital crime
In the name of ethnic federalism
Disintegrate the sovereign nation
Not yet pleaded guilty of treason
with the intent to stay in power
Befriended with supremacy-monger
Your crimes stand tall
Your insults echo every angle
The travesty and profane
Got too hefty to carry on
Who can forget and forgive
For the scars are real not illusive
We have not been avenging
In the midst of mourning
We have not wiped out the tears
Flooding on innocent bodies
We beg for God to give us water
A portion of bread and a shelter
The enemy with-in quicken to answer
Come forth with spilled blood,
and bodies of the brothers.
Their fleshes are brought forth
As delicacy for vultures.
The scavengers hovers the sky,
Predators in the valley
don’t seem to worry
don’t wander around for prey
For God has seen the lamentation,
The cries and sobbing of the nation
Pharaoh celebrating the millennium,
His magicians making its emblem
The monumental heritage of the city
The blasphemous hotel of Alamoudi
Delude those who paid homage
To induce conceptual damage
Then, spoke the God of Ethiopia
O! you children of Satan
O! you children of Babylon
Done evil beyond repair
desecrate the land no more
O! you born from the seed of hatred
Free my people from bondage
O! you the sons of dissolution
Leave my sacred altar and realm
For I say onto the world
With mighty voice and word
Ethiopia is the land of brotherhood
My vengeance is beyond measure
For idolatrous of “ferenj” and evil doer
You altered and defied my covenants
Prosecuted and vanished
the true children of the land
My wrath has come down
Heater than the blazing sun.
O! my people come as united as ever before
Reclaiming the promise given afore
To reshine and to glorify
With true color of identity
This is your ultimatum to the enemy.
ETHIOPIA WILL PREVAIL!
