WE HAD A FAMILY

We had a family from long ago
We lived in peace and love
Devoid of violence except for 
War against disallowed exodus into our land

Suddenly we had monsters in priestly garments
Telling us that we lived in the dark and the deadly ages
That we need to develop pass all those stages
And embrace the civilization of the Mercedes

They told us to go to the church and mosque
To abandon our old ways
We accepted
Then our family started to rip apart

Suddenly we turned villains
Our brother became our enemies
The family broke and we knew not of love anymore
Peace became a tense of the past

We no longer eat from the same plate
We no longer unite anymore
Our land and our blessings are being sold
But all we do is fight it all bloody

Our sense of humanity  gone
All the killings we’ve done
We refer to our brothers as “they”
See each other as infidels

We’ve been divided and we’re ruled
A family gone
We had a family
And it was Africa.