Would sell your mother?
Would you sit and do nothing
As your mother is being destroyed?
The one whose breasts you suckled,
The one whose womb incubated you,
The one who nurtured your fragile life
Into a well fed, now energized human being?
The one whose hands held you and cared for you?
Would you sell your mother?
And why do you sit there
And allow them to destroy mother nature?
Why do you say nothing when our wildlife is being
poached?
Why does it not move you when they grab forests,
national parks and water catchment areas to erect concrete structures?
Why is it not your business to take care of the
environment?
You watch as they cut down our lungs and our shade
You feel nothing when our beautiful mother is being
mutilated
Fertile land being wasted and rivers being polluted
You keep quiet as they sell our mother to those
whose intentions are evil...
Why do you just stare and not dare?
I speak for my mother,
I speak for our mother,
Though homely and natural
She is the one we want
Don't try put on make up on her.
Though her beauty seems to fade
Her wisdom none can replace
Stop trying to replace her noble role.
Though her skin sags and her back bends
Her strength none can match.
Stop lying to us
Though her fertility you now doubt,
Her DNA runs through generations
We can still dignify her motherhood.
I speak for my mother,
I speak for our mother.
Leave her Alone!
Munuhe 2016
