Where Have All the Brothers Gone

Uhuru fam! This is Asatira, I'll be posting the first installment of our family blog. I chose a poem that was written by one of our brothers on December 4, 1996. Its called Where have alll the Brothers Gone:

Where have all the brothers gone

They have gone astray

Head all bad, not thinking straight

All dressed in bright colored jump suits and locked away

Where have all the brothers gone

They have gone astray

Many have lost hope

Got no respect for self and even less for others

Freedom ancestors fought and died for, is not now revered

And life itself, once sacrosanct, has little meaning

Where have all the brothers gone

Too few trying to find them

Too selfish and busy to care

That their brothers have gone away

But hopefully not to stay.

-Joe L. Webster