Freedom, Then What Poem by Quir Diing Jr.

After that freedom
What step should we take?
As we rush
To catch up with the world
While the planet run as fast as a deer.

First sign
Covenant with poverty signed
As you leaders pocket our budget
Fortunately you leave us at crossroads
With less water
In a dry land
While we see the mighty Nile flowing
Along our villages.

Do we have to live with illiteracy?
While you hoard
Education tools
In your briefcases
As you send it outside the country
While you continue with divide and rule
Like the colonial masters
After that freedom,
What is next?

Poverty will we live in
With least education I guess.
For the people
Like in Old Stone Age
Should we make do of the Oldowan tools?
No, let me talk of Acheulian tools
Or otherwise you think
Of Microlithic tools anyway, uh?
That’s how you treat us.

Provide education,
Wipe out poverty
And divide and rule you must stop!
To live as one nation
Under the sun
So as to catch the climbing planet
As we use the brain tools.