HOME OF THE STRANGER

HOME OF THE STRANGER

Total darkness will cover the sky
Tropical diseases will call to stay
Traffic vehicles sometimes delay
To let the place home of all cries
But you are my sweet home!

Kids worn in rags and nakedness
Pigs struggling to lay into ponds
Kids counting one ten at schools
Sitting on stones, cracked boards
But you are my sweet home!

Fearing to aeroplane hordes
Is the life of home dwellers
Fearing to white peoples
Men eaters and gods!
But you are my sweet home!

Pills are null and void
Roots are cool and pain killers
Bitter leaves are watery swallowed
Ground nuts butter flavours meals
But you are my sweet home!

Engineers of local made transport
Make cars, bicycles, and motors
From wood, move out of petrol
Salt from water, clothes of barks
But you are my sweet home!

Oral narratives by elders
Around the evening fires
Kids attentively with smiles
Long long ago, king lioness
But you are my sweet home!