Where Else
Here, we marry indiscipline and tragedy
Here, the motherland respects lie
Corruptions are given birth to outside the light, while here
Tradition is sanctioned and modernization is pride
A dark culture and a revised religion, all here
Here, we're denied learning the origin of how we write and speak
How did words become words and number alike
Here, we wear the characters of those who history propose as geniuses and legends, even if they were not
A dark and inexplicable past is the present and future
A future worth ignoring
Here, I'm divided
By tribes, cultures and symbols
Different currencies and different identies
Different familiarity and different religion
Here, I would fight with no chance of existence
And, my slave master would think me a fool
Cause, here, I'm a nobody
Nobody is my name
If she comes, Liberia is hers and not mine
Though I might dream of a new day
Here, I do not decide the future
There is no future
If I speak out, I become a child of a lesser God
A lesser God they add
Why am I still here
If I could speak
If I could walk
Here
Nowhere else, but
It stinks and hurt
Black people
Dark continent
A prescribed fake traditions by my opponent
New religion and doctrine
Now, we're homosexuals and slayers
Killers of ourselves
Haters of our ethnicity and cultural norms
But
Here, we shall remain
Protecting the sanity of our faith
Here we shall abide
Imbibing into our history
Though we will die
Not for a cause they would brand
But
Here, we die with honor
Holding with pride the African culture
There's no strength to move forward
Here, we will fight
Standing tall and courageous
When the last birth runs out
Here, we will be buried
Here lies my identity
And, Here, I want to stand
Denyuwa_Berrian · Urbain
