No lies, just the truth!

People lie because they can, people fail to tell the truth because of how strong it is.

No lies, just the truth
This time, just the truth

It is freezing in Nairobi,
People are dying in Turkana & Somalia
Mothers are leaving their children by the road
They crawl into Kenya looking for food
Some make it here, when they are long gone

People say we are doomed
Some say that Africa suffers
Some think of all the pain Africans endure
I wonder who cares, I wonder who doesn't

No lies, just the truth
This time, just the truth.

I hear people laughing
The children play in streets,
The parents get home from work
A meal would cost roughly three dollars
Now it costs five dollars-for a whole family

Some say it is living below the poverty line
What is a poverty line?
Show it to me, for what I see is people
People who care to smile and hope
People who care to share the little they have
People who are praying for others
They have, others lack
So they pray-isn't the truth ugly?

No lies, just the truth
This time,just the truth

You choose to see what you want to
I choose to see what is here
You choose to believe what you hear
I choose to believe in what is to come
I choose not because I want to, but because I can
I spot my tough kinky hair


Straighten it, won't you?
I won't!I love my afro-kinky hair
It reminds me of what it feels to belong
It also reminds me of what you do not see
I see the stars at night, now at times I see tall buildings
I see the moon and the stars

No lies, just the truth
There is so much to pain and suffering
I see the people who hurt but smile,
What do you see?
I want the truth and not lies.

Reviews

[An owl on the moon]

What a vast journey across the earth and into the hearts of those who walk her landscapes.. Pain and suffering seems to abound.. as does joy and peace... and often it is the beauty in the eye of the beholder.. So depthful, my friend.

[Ruth]

Brilliant! This is great work love...the truth is often covered up with corrupt lies and we are not allowed or supposed to why such things as poverty exist....engineered perhaps!? There is more than enough money to go round in the world...makes me feel so heart broken!
Beautifully thought out love!
xx

[Linear]

So much hurt and pain in this world, ppl starve while others destroy food crops to drive up the cost ....man will continue to dominate man to his injury till God steps in,and he will someday soon.
Great words spoken through your eyes.