TO WHAT END?

It is all pointless

Struggling to live

Yet we'd rather be alive

Hope keeps us moving

Hope in everything good

Hope we will fine

Hope that one day

Just one day

Our one day will come

Strangers yesterday, friends today

Friends today, strangers tomorrow

And so the cycle goes on

Sweet hearts today

Bilious ones tomorrow

Alliances formed

Formed with handshakes

Handshakes and smiles

Turn to betrayal

Betrayal with smirks

Top of the charts today

Extinct tomorrow

Celebrated today

With air in your lungs

Forgotten tomorrow

Gone forever

Only becoming a memory

After they become deflated

Excruciating pain

Incurable diseases

Crimes driven by hunger

Hunger that needs satisfaction

Unnecessary wars

Wars that have denied us serenity

Wars said to be fought

Fought to bring us peace

But are really fought

Fought to satisfy the egos

The egos of those who are drunk

Drunk with power

Whose cravings are subordination

Cutting short our young men

Men who are sons,

Sons of mothers

Men who are husbands,

Husbands with wives

Men who are fathers,

Fathers with sons and daughters

The earth soak up their tears

The echoes of their cries fill the air

Their blood runs deep down the drains

Meandering through the streams

Reminding us of our collective fate

“Dust to dust”

“Ashes to ashes”

Loathe of me 'cause I'm from Africa

Loathe of me 'cause of my skin colour

When I can do what you can

Where all of us can embrace each other

With our common fate etched on our hearts

The craze for fame and power

The craze for effortless success

Coupled with high levels of instant gratification

Life has lost its meaning to us

Morality, gone along with it

Wrong is right since no right is left

Wonder when we will pick up

Where we left and turn right

Staggering towards it seems

But, in the end it's

The few seconds

Few minutes

Few days

Few years

The few glorious moments

That really define us

For we must accept

And walk towards our collective fate

“Dust to dust”

“Ashes to ashes”