Listen! Listen! Listen!
Listen to the cries of the persecuted
Listen to the plights of the castrated
Listen to the sufferings of the tormented
Listen to the voice of your conscience
Listen and feel the consequences of your silence.
When the urgencies and battles of cultures
Seem to imprison my mind in incessant thoughts
I condense in me the vapour of resentment.
Sleeping bodies all over the place,
Flying bullets have taken their pace, families are out of space,
No space on which to graze, hunger they are forced to face!
From the top of my roof, I scan the whole sub-region and I wonder:
Where did that burning symbol of Faith, Peace and Unity go?
I keep asking myself, who am I?
I am the immortal soul of that soldier who has died for the motherland!
I am that country up and ready for challenges
I am the one ready to listen to my conscience
For it’s time to stop being silent
It’s time for action!
It’s then I will be ONE and INDIVISIBLE
I will be the cultural melting pot
I will be Africa in miniature
I will be CAMEROON.
LISTEN! ECOUTE!
This Poem was published in the May 2022 edition of the WSA magazine. Please click here to download.
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