Cry African Girl
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 the 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 in 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 backbreaking dreary buckets of water It's so tiresome my heart cries within me Ifs 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 of fresh air cometh not Don't fall African girl, up and fight Yearn for another life Another era. Handsen Chikowore
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