A Girl’s Pain

My fellow people I have seen

wonders in reality

Food Education and Clothing

Is it why I was brought

into this world?

My mother is a drunkard

My father is another one

They keep on drinking

until the last sip

When they get changaa,

welcome

Local beer

welcome

And why not other expensive beers as well?

Late at midnight here mother comes

staggering, not knowing

what is happening around us

She would ask,

why haven’t you gone to bed?

But mum do we go to bed with an empty belly

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Here father comes rolling,

like an angry lion

Who can bear this man

We all creeped into our beds till morning

In the morning we have to wonder,

“where do we get breakfast from?”

We only take a cup of cold water

and take our heels to school

just to be seen by the other pupils like pictures

Our hair is so shaggy

and protruding bellies

Dad have you decided to abandon us like orphans,

Mum how soon have you forgotten?

The girls pain

I wept and  

I cried