the best way to tell your story is through art,
in a poem & watch everyone that passes by read
here, we don’t know how to pronounce pain from peace
because we have never seen this country at ease.
bones that were to grow flesh after the war,
broke in pieces from hunger
your mother say open yourself up to God – pray the suffering
away ; hope for normal days to surface
you’re tire of seeing people that lost during the war
come back (reincante) only in movies on TV .
but there are enough Sauls with hearts stout
persecuting us for being Liberians.
About The Author
Emmanuel G G Yamba writes from Liberia. His works has been featured and forthcoming in Salamander Ink, Odd magazine, Kalahari Review, Afro Rep, An anthology for Abunic and elsewhere.