(Scene I)
Heeding golden days pays
Making a circle around a big oak tree in paradise Ethiopian patriots are seen sat. The valorous Yohannes IV, Alula Abanega, Tewodros II, Menilik II, Balcha Aba Nefso, Jagama Kelo and the like are seen on the front. They were discussing the current political situation of Ethiopia.
(--> Enters Mai Kadra holocaust victims/martyrs)
Hacked to death
By those who
Lost their mental health
Obsessed by ethno politics
In the wrong-headed
‘We and they’
Political matrix
And also who
Sold their soul
To devil
Inured to acts
Dubbed horrifyingly evil
The fledgling, feeble
Children, pregnant women
Their feet and hands tied
What is more chopped
Were committed to
A mass grave
When the atavists
Lost battle
In the hands of
Nation’s cherished
Sons & daughters brave.
(Stands up Yohaness IV and putting his hands on his head says.)
How barbaric?
To me such an act
Is Greek.
(Enters Ethiopian soldiers who were attacked by the Junta, while maintaining peace.)
Deployed to guard
The border
From any enemy
That conspires
To put Ethiopia
And its people asunder,
By traitor Juntas
We were stabbed
In the back
When it got pitch dark,
Yet, heroically,
We mounted
Counter attack
Till support
From hinterland
Arrived from
Our side.
Traitor Junta’s
Plan had to fail
Together we chased
Them away
Between their legs
Placed their tail.
(Balcha Abanefso stands up and waving his pointed finger says)
It was standing one
Many battle engagements
We won,
Unity, love, peace & cordiality
Must mark our identity!
I am angry
Ethiopians’ super chemistry
Is fast turning
Behind us left history.
This send
It must be known
It is high time
Ethiopians reverse
This trend!
How come, selfless,
The land
We kept once
Barring it
From colonizers’ advance
Fast gone?
This calls for a new dawn!
(Stands up Jagama Kelo and walking to and fro says)
How come the self-centered
And selfish
Than their mother Ethiopia
Their ethnic base relish.
It is with chemistry
Great things like
Adwa or Karamara victory
People accomplish.
In the face of adversity—
Colonial aggression
What is more
Expansion—
Helped us most
Unity& fraternity
To preserve
Our religious, language,
Cultural identity.
Forgetting what
We are displaying today
Let us live
In forefathers way.
Come rain or shine
Considerateness, unity
Peace are fine.
A poetic Drama – Scene II
Rewarded Satan’s way
A weekly devil council about evil prowess is being held in hell. Devils were standing on tongues of fire waving their tails and howling in a frightening manner that sends a chill down one’s spinal cord. They were gritting their saw-like teeth and holding double-forked arrows. All were soot greased horn to toe, twisted and long. They were submerging the sinful like Judah deep into the fire.
(Enters lost- in-action TPLF Junta’ informal army members referred Sameri.)
Aghast, at last
Vanquished, to retreat fast
Inflicting vengeful attack,
Tying and strangulating
Mai Kadra people
Brutally, we had made them
Breathe their last.
(A Satan on the front puts his hands together and says ‘How impish!’ ‘What news to relish!’ Then he says,)
Spilling the blood
Of fellow human beings
Is something
We appreciate
The level of
Your cruelty
Is not
Heard to date.
By inflicting on
The innocent damage
With us
You have come to
The same page
As goes
“Out Heroding
Herod!” adage.
(Enter Junta group members. They were the ones who were killed by counter attack, while stabbing the northern wing of ENDF in the back. Rearing his grotesque face out from the fire ‘bravo!’ says Judah the culprit. A devil pushes his head back into the fire)
Averse to
“Love your friend
Like yourself ”
We ambushed
Fellow soldiers
Off their guard
Though our action
To the sane
Is hard to understand.
Looting heavy arms
Heavy damage
We were to score
No doubt
Had it been successful
Which sadists and Lucifer
Would adore.
(A Satan at the back stands up to accord him a high five)
Stabbing in the back
Fellow soldiers
In the military ditch
Is something
Not heard to date
That is animosity
We compliment,
As it is top
Among sins
God said
“Felony I hate.”
(A veteran TPLF official on top of his voice says)
Unless ethnic groups
Get at loggerheads
We didn’t feel comfort
Because we are heinous,
Who understand
“Cut your cloth
According to your coat!”
We adored
“Divide and rule”
to exercise,
Cognizant to outsmart devil
That is an approach wise.
In a two-year-and-half time,
One crime after a crime,
We had committed messes
To 113 which add up
In the nation’s
Massacres map.
As a result
Reigned supreme turmoil
On Ethiopia’s soil.
We didn’t want
The prime minister
Ethiopia, tranquil,
To administer.
Without us,
The diabolic,
In the top brass
Also trampling on
The broad mass
Allows we not
Ethiopia to continue
Reformed or anew.
Fabricating lies
Was our characteristic feature
As we got it by nurture
And practice it as if
It was our nature.
(At last when a pin drop silence falls Satnael got up and said)
Outsmarted by TPLF junta
For three decades
That lavished
The flow of blood
Like a flood
And which milked
The destitute
But pious Ethiopians
Till they cry
Until their woes
Reached the sky
“God punish us
With TPLF Junta why?
Alive must we die?
For what evil
Are we being punished
By those
Ever who outperform
The devil?”
Today
I have to reward you
My way
“I will throw you
In to a more
Smoldering fire—
Inferno—
As atavism
Is your desire!”
A lacerating fire
Devoid of light
Will be
Your plight.
Devils are seen outrunning each other to drag the atavists into the inferno.////
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