Reparation

Living in ivory towers

Of the affluent nations

The thriving beings tend to neglect

Fathers’ vile incarnations

Who, for gaining might and mammon                                

Traversed lands and sailed oceans

To cause natives in far off lands

Grief of untold dimensions.

Do you know their blue yesterdays

When their liberty was staked?

Do you care for what they went through

When their lands were invaded

By your own forbearers, who crushed

Their pride and left thousands dead

By brutal means and callous deeds

And watched   their deaths in cold blood?

Can you measure the sighs and cries

Of the orphaned and widowed

Just because of your fathers’ deeds?

Can you gauge the wealth amassed

From the rightful, deserving hands?

It’s fair, have them all bestowed--

Through noble acts of care and love

And mend  every  past  wrong deed.