Let's Live in Peace By Michael Dei-Anang

Let's Live in Peace

By

Michael Dei-Anang

Where the rivers of time

Are fouled by native stress and strife,

And man becomes his own enemy, 

Life is distraught

And its colourful scenes

Are marred and stained 

By dark-brown blots of violent blood

Let's live in peace,

For here, like tenants 

In thatched huts, we dwell;

Soon, too soon, the tropic storm 

Will out-blow the flick'ring lights

Of human life- 

Our huts will fall

In frailty upon the earth

Whereon, they rot, 

And we, in foul disintegration,

Will be identified.

With dust.