posted on behalf of Alem Hailu

[Doctor Fab]

this is Alem Hailu's unpublished poem for "FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE" Anthology

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From: Alem Hailu
Date: Mon, Dec 31, 2018 at 9:22 AM
Subject: My unpublished poem

How fast things are changing

I) The Past

Ever forging the social fabric of unity

Proving firm in the acid test of integrity

Respecting the elderly

Standing by each other side

In times of good or bad.

Circumventing things adverse

Following the footprint of forefathers.

To foil aggression,

For closing ranks that gives attention

Fighting for sovereignty

Till one's bones

Are scattered on the sand

Also"The ideals of the flag is grand!"

Unquestioningly willing to understand

Expropriators,though eager to be filthy rich,

With numerous boons willing

The destitute to outreach

Citizens from whose speech

It is hard to find a glitch.

People that showcase the fear of God,

Whom to their heart close they hold?

II) Future

Engaged in an ethnic clashes hot

A neighbor to a neighbor,also

An ethnic group to an ethnic group

Will turn out a cut throat.

When the world shrinks into a global village

"Blood is ticker than water will

Be the adage!"