Mother Ghana is Sick!

My dear Ghana is in bad health condition
Because she is attended to by men and women
Who claiming to be rulers are ruled by their own selfish desires
For power, wealth, fame and pleasure-- men with no social conscience!

Until we all learn to give our political voices
To men who are inspired solely by love of justice and public welfare;
Unless we ourselves become citizens stamped
With mercy and compassion towards the average poor on the street;

Unless we recognize why it pays to cultivate the potential of our youth;
Until we learn to prevent power-drunk politicians from exploiting our ethnic
And linguistic differences in promoting tribal animosity for their political advantage ;
Unless as a nation, we reflect to transform our mindset and ethnocentric perceptions,

I must diagnose in tears, our beloved Mother Ghana will die
In her curable disease and God would do nothing about it.

Dominic Mensah
ghanafuturenow@gmail.com