CRY AFRICAN GIRL

[CocoaButter]

Up in the azure sky shoots the sun’s rays
The sun with its mellow rays
Rises to meet another day, another promise
To me it's not yet any hope’s ray
As more rays weigh down my tender shoulder
Which sag me, a girl but only thirteen

Setting alight the fire in the young of morning
Sweeping the sheets of dust and dirt early morning
A beast of burden for firewood, so I am bound
All those long distances I have to foot
A throbbing ever throbbing pain to my foot
Not to forget the baby, clinging on my yonder back

The thorn infested forests
The meandering long walks to wells and boreholes
The back breaking dreary buckets of water
It's so tiresome my heart cries within me
It's so punishing my tears cascade like waterfalls
Sweet honey was my birth, sour girl is my life

All African girls
Cry for thy renaissance
The rape, torture, assault and victimisation
Our life an eerie furnace of denied paradise
A sad song of denied education
I am so weary. Oh weary. So weary
A breath for fresh air cometh not
Don’t fall African girl, up and fight
Yearn for another life
Another era

HARARE ZIMBABWE