Colors Of My Tears

Colors of my tears
I cry pink tears when
Sisters use leaves and dry goat skin as sanitary towels
When children are rained on under a tree trying to learn some vowels

I cry black tears when
A brother butchers another brother because of the color of his skin
When some people fail to understand that racial discrimination is a sin
When a brother knocks at your door and because you hate his color you don't let him in!

I cry green tears when
Mother Nature chokes and suffocates on the fumes from factories
When some greedy heartless citizens kill rhinos and elephants for their ivories
When hunger strikes killing thousands of people because of deforestation
When we forget our roots and lose our heritage because all we'll have left is a treeless nation

I cry red tears when
A brother bleeds to death because the police shot a stray bullet
When an ordained priest forcefully feeds on a choir girl like an eagle on a pullet
And then he finds his way around the law just because he "praises" God on a pulpit
When the society treat an honest and industrious brother, a rastaman, like a culprit
When some people, rich people treat others, poor people, like shit

I cry brown tears when
People kill others for their wealth just so that they can have more
When I fail to understand why some people sleep on empty stomach on a cold floor
While others spend millions throwing glamorous parties for just a day next door
When political leaders buy alcohol for the youth and fund them to start a tribal war
Sadly they cannot say NO because they also fail to understand what unity stands for
And they know that they will have fifty shillings each and there will be bottles of alcohol galore.

-Edwin Onyango