It is unsettling, trying time for our mother land
Her old enemies are talking war
Out to shad her blood
Take her drinking water and occupy all that she possessed
She has out lived all wars band of enemies
In the middle ages she vanquished Muslim invaders
Came to her shore to take her people Into slaves
In recent past , her brave warriors fought against
Mussolini ‘s fascist army and drove them out of her terrorizes
Her battle tested warriors gallantly fought Mussolini
With brave heart in every region until he demoralized
Defeated , and embarrassed and fled
Once again her belligerent neighbors threatening
to cross her border
To loot and vandalize her precious water
They must know they are playing with raging fire
The like of which they never seen before
A looming hovering above like heavy dark cloud
To bring flood uproot people like dry trees in the ground
I am anguished and heavy hearted and overwhelmed by sadness
Our precious home land is engulfed by raging fire, social upheavals
Disgruntled terrorists
The threat of war from afar has been always present and dangerous
We also must pay special attention to home grown
disillusioned , misguided Disgruntled fellow brothers and sisters
They have become assassins and arsonists
Stetting ablaze villages farms , homes churches , schools
The fabric of our society , our humanity and our core values
Are defiled our rich history are in the verge of braking down
The bed rock of our long held way of life is its knees
This tragic ethnic driven war even could cascade
Into massive mayhem and loss of life hard to comprehend
Our cherish history will be disbanded and discard
Foster animosity and suspicion neighbor against neighbor
produce a legacy of hate and a broke society in disrepair
These are our flesh and blood being aggrieved , falling victims
Setting ablaze own homes
Crying loud shading tears for being homeless
They are invisible warriors without an insignia Or military uniform
They are zealots could inflict an existential societal harm
They aspire a Goal to establish Some from utopia
Burning down to ashes our precious land Ethiopia
They are like an adolescent who murder his parents
In the fit of anger , out of control emotion
Ask for mercy of the court because he was an orphan
Ethiopians are in mourning for the lost burned down
Homes, churches for murdered souls
For mutilated women for unborn babies taking out by force
from the womb of their mothers
discarded to feed the vultures
For kidnaped held hostage never return homes and families
Ethiopia has been tested and retested by war hunger and disses and ramen
This too will come to pass
She will rise like morning sun rise again and again
