Where are we heading? by M. Fikameni

After independence, many nations ask themselves the question, “where are we heading”? Whom do we want to become? Mr. M. Fikameni (Polytech 3rd year-English Student) poses that question in the poem below. What do you think of his take on this crucial question?  Leave your comments below. 

Where are we heading?

 

History has it that there is indeed change

Not good change but different to old change

Of course, change be change but not always good change

For the youngsters shout out loud that we are the change

So where are we heading?

 

The Bantu life in a transformation reflection of the west

The television ought to become a religion

Giving a deaf ear to culture and tradition

Copy and pasting the imperfection original and ruining the current

So where are we heading?

 

Lucky to have schools but yet they turn out attending themselves

Abstain, Be faithful, and Condomise. On paper but not in practice

The HIV and teenage pregnancy rate still sky rocketing

Ignorance is the biggest disease amongst the apparent “wise”

So where are we heading?

 

The word motherhood is a rhetoric to our feminine tie

Men are no exception, with them being guilty of “passion killing”

What’s passionate about passion killing? Baby dumping, another anthem

What happened to the sense of humanity and the religious guidance?

But still, where are we heading?

 

Liberation struggle is over; we now faced with survival struggle

Quiet! You cannot preach socialism in a capitalism society

Its survival of the fittest, it’s either you are connected or forget reaping

Home is home for many after freshly graduating

So I wonder and ask, where are we heading?

 

Many have become spectators, living the life of a journalist

They talk and report of things happening, not doing something about it

How does change come if one is not the change themselves?

Or perhaps let’s look at the past and ask “where did we go wrong?”

Probably only then we can determine where we are heading.

 

 

By: hon. Mathias Fikameni