Unlike Ethiopian refuges
Elephants, Giraffes
And other animals
Are protected
From random killers
By Kenyan laws
Funded by Europeans
Unlike Ethiopian refuges
These animals are free
To room all over
Cross boarders
Any where
Among African countries
How is it
Kenyans chose
To gun dawn
Ethiopian children on daylight
Who have no where to go
But be temporary guests
Don’t the refuges
Merit equal right
To those animals
In the eye of Kenyans
** Lemlem Tsegaw, November 7, 2007, Dedicated to all “Ethiopian … killed and wounded in Kenya” per EthioMedia, November 5, 2007
Click here to read the poem in Amharic
Elephants, Giraffes
And other animals
Are protected
From random killers
By Kenyan laws
Funded by Europeans
Unlike Ethiopian refuges
These animals are free
To room all over
Cross boarders
Any where
Among African countries
How is it
Kenyans chose
To gun dawn
Ethiopian children on daylight
Who have no where to go
But be temporary guests
Don’t the refuges
Merit equal right
To those animals
In the eye of Kenyans
** Lemlem Tsegaw, November 7, 2007, Dedicated to all “Ethiopian … killed and wounded in Kenya” per EthioMedia, November 5, 2007
Click here to read the poem in Amharic
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