Why is this child crying?
Why is this child crying?
Is he heard?
Shhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
What?
No I can't believe this!
I lean my face on my hands
Shocked am I
Traumatised by the sight of injustice
Injustice towards a hungry suckling
Yes hungry he is
What is he hungry for?
He is hungry to do something
Hungry yes hungry to prove himself worthy
Hungry for Education
Hungry for Economic Freedom
Indeed this child is hungry
Yet he cries unheard
His cry fall on deaf ears
His tears are only seen by blind eyes
His touch by a corpse
So this child cries
Held against the back
Safe he is they say
So why does this child cry?
He cries for his mother to give him suck!
Yet her breasts have become the haven of vultures
Like vipers their fangs oozed poison into her
The child can no longer feed
The child can no longer live
O how their bellies shine so bright
As a balloon about to explode
Why is this child crying?
Why is this child crying?
His visage is pale
His lips are dry
Yet they drip of lambs oil
Woe and I say woe
For a day is coming when this child will speak
When his cry will be heard
It shall be as thunder
As a tsunami he shall be
When that day comes
No ear shall be deaf
No eye shall be blind
Those corpses will be warm
Attend to him now
Attend to him now
For tomorrow has come
And this child speaks
Attend to him now
Attend to him now
For by force he shall take back what belongs to him
Those bellies no longer
That oil drips no more
Why is this child crying?
Why is this child crying?
Attend to him now!
Attend to him now!
B.Majola