We lived for yonks

In peace and tranquility

We lived safely, in a world so friendly

Omniscient of peace

We knew no calamity

Until you came and banished goodness

You brought the emblem of cruelty

Devastated our harmonious homes

Incapacitated many

Apprehended and droughted for slavery

Scourged all day, with the rage of furious canes

Now emasculated

We live in terror of terrified creatures

Embattled by hungers

We suffer under hard labour

And we committed no crime

Crying and weeping

We mourn the loss of loved ones

Painful pleasures our daily possessions

We yearn for emancipation

You deteriorate our weakness

Our thoughts under incarceration

In cells of hopelessness

Death becomes our greatest ambition

We never fall somnolence at all

We endure all throbs and threes

Rekindle our aspirations and hopes

We might be powerless

Helpless but not hopeless

Our freedom is sacrosanct

Determined are we to combat

Your pains to humanity

Your destruction to God’s creation

Of your in-humanity, shall you be paid

Until we win the fight

We shall battle