We are here –
Witness to the endless war
Women and children
Being murdered
More people
Getting homeless
Children starving
And The super-rich laughing
And the super-rich laughing
At their dinner tables –
We are here turning deaf
To the cry of a whole nation
Turning a blind eye
To babies being bombed,
Humans being killed like cockroaches –
We are here in the comfort
Of our own homes
Glued on our coaches
Changing TV channel after TV channel
Looking for something to entertain us
While the SCREAM of a whole nation
Will never, ever reach our stale conscience –
kgosietsile is a poet from Mangaung(Bloemfontein) he lives with his beautiful wife Bongiwe and three wonderful daughters Reitumetse, Kgomotso and Otlotlilwe(Tlotlo) he has since published two volumes of poetry: “An African child” and 2nd ” A walk through earth”. he is currently busy polishing his third volume of poetry and hopefully have it published next year(2024).