I HAVE BEEN TOLD

~I HAVE BEEN TOLD~

I have been told

Blankly speaking,

I have been told

That we are living

Even while before my eyes

We are dropping dead like flies.

I have been told that we are happy

Even while tears are rushing

Down our cheeks like waterfalls.

Could this be lies of faith?

Or perhaps lies coated with faith?

And this land that we so much cherish

Is the actual land that will

Swallow us when we perish-

Oh how this deadly plague

Invaded not sparing

And they still blabber faint

Consolation, but death is fetching
From a bottomless hole,

Our loved ones go never returning.

I have been told, that it’s merely

Us joining the heavenly choir

And that all we need to do is

Fervently say our daily prayer

Thus I have been told,

While our souls are leaving us

And our bodies-running cold

But what fills us is sorrow

And pain in utmost despair.

---Ronald K Ssekajja, Fampah Coyish---

© By Fampah Coyish, Ronald K Socratise Ssekajja-Awoken By Poems 2014