(dedicated to Abass Sesay)

You remind us of what happened
On January 6th, 1998;
A senseless war, brainless fools.
Hate swallowed their love,
Land that we love,
Just vain words in the air.
A baby you were when your
Hands were chopped off,
Ahhhhh, who has the heart to hurt a baby?
I hate to think how many babies
Were killed on that day,
For I know today they would have
Been fine men and fine women.
The pain and shame of growing
Incomplete; that look of others,
And his head sunk deeper,
Crashing deep into the earth core.
Yet, you didn't give in,
You lived for all of us,
You walked...