What are we doing to ourselves? Why all this conversation of artillery Which lure souls out from their bodies Drilling out red sweat from skins Selling lives to death because of a natural gift.
What are we doing to ourselves? We keep hijacking people dreams Before it's born into reality Making many old to hope in mediocrity Grooming the glowing youngster to grow faithfully in vanities.
What are we doing to ourselves? We had caged the mankind in us with our stained hands Making bare the devil in us to imprison our fate Now living like cat and mouse in the same house In the name of money, power and fame.
Our heads, what are we doing to ourselves? Often setting traps in the name of policies Sweating to resurrect the dead, ignoring the living Blinding our eyes when hands are stretched Weeping blood, peeling kneels just to get a help. Why do we always leave ourselves to live and die eating promises?
What have we done to ourselves? Our children are dead out of our negligence In anger, our youths wedded to weapons to take vengeance Vengeance painstaking taken against themselves For the witty guilty are never found, they are ourselves.
This poem is picturing what we have turned our world into using my country and indeed my continent as perimeters.