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In this land, guerrillas and warlord militias fight over dirt pavilions

 

Slowly reducing the nation to genocide and oblivion

 

Most victims thought to be children and civilians

Sea being poisoned and leased to Mafioso Sicilians

 

Famine estimated at the thousands and millions

We need help; we need trillions

 

Meanwhile, Barracko is sending blessed arms by the billions

 

In this land, a tragedy is unfolding in slow motion

 

Some cry; Some show no emotion

 

Migrants run from town and the flee the commotion

 

But some are found drowned beneath the oceans

 

From poverty, they could find no promotion

 

In this land, misery seems like a devotion

 

In this land, Nomads lead simple lives herding camels and goats

 

Fisherman became pirates, hijacking boats

 

School kids became Militants and started making a living hacking throats

 

Mothers were forced to feed their kids on Oats

 

I tried to capture this tragedy in my notes

 

Audiences couldn’t bear it, so they reached for their remotes

 

Meanwhile, International community subjects help to votes

 

In this land, the tragedy was captured by western reporters

 

A lesson for their viewers on 21st century camcorders

 

Analysts sit and explain how the primordial Africans slaughter

 

Lines of Bodies maimed by RPGs and mortars

 

They say reporters have no borders

 

But what about the massacres of America and Blackwater?

 

Or what about the Ethiopian soldier who just killed a mother and her daughter?

 

I guess this land must be a beneficiary of the new World Order?

 

In this land, I wonder who's to blame for the state of our people?

 

Are we addicted to war and evil?

 

It’s like every passing hour becomes more lethal

 

Some say the solution lies in the scriptures

For our sins, we must seek forgiveness

 

Some says it’s the work of the militants

Those hiding behind religion

And killing innocents

 

Others say the salvation lies in secular deliverance

 

But I wonder if it makes an iota of difference?

Cus in this land of Somalia, war never finds a hinderance

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I liked it. It'd be much better if you got the structure right. Now it sounds more like a speech than a poem. But again, I liked it. Good stuff.

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