Plea to Fight

Mama, please, may I go

I want to fight

And bring back freedom

To where it belongs, to us!

No, baby I really don’t

Advocate for it

You are at the threshold of marriage

Baby don’t go.

Mama, I do not like to see you sad

But mama, don’t you see?

They killed pap, they killed uncle

Mama just let me go.

Baby, I love you

And don’t want to see you get killed.

I have already lost a husband and a brother

Do you want me to lose you too?

Baby, stay with me.

Look here, mama

Dad and uncle were killed

Fighting for freedom

They died like real lions, mama

I want to fight and die like a lion

If I have to

My son, my only son

Please do not say that

You fill your old

Mom’s heart with grief and worry

You are already the pride of our family

You are my only son.

Mama, being an only son

Does not mean I am brave

If I let my country fall

Into the hands of hungry strangers

Into the hands of black traitors

Mama, don’t you see?

I need to save my country

I need to prove that I’m grown up

No longer a suckling baby.

My son, if to make you suckle

Would delay your departure

Would lower your pride

I would not be ashamed to suckle you

But now I see

Your heart is like stone

Yes my child, you are

The lion of the country

Go in peace

I give you my blessings.

Thank you ma,

I will not fail you

Nor the spirits of my fathers

Tell my sisters that I love them

And I’ve gone to make

A beautiful paradise for them.

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