Anglophone youths pay tribute to victims of Kumba killings in emotional poems
W. E Richardson has penned an emotional poem on today’s mass killing at a school in Kumba, South West region of Cameroon, which left six children dead and several others injured. He writes: O, Kumba!The fountain of river Meme.What have you done?Why the carnage?Will this poem sooth your pains? The world has lost its head,It […]
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W. E Richardson has penned an emotional poem on today’s mass killing at a school in Kumba, South West region of Cameroon, which left six children dead and several others injured.
He writes:
O, Kumba!
The fountain of river Meme.
What have you done?
Why the carnage?
Will this poem sooth your pains?
The world has lost its head,
It seems we have reached our end.
What crime for these school children?
O, Kumba!
The treasure house of South West.
How could they defile your land with red ink?
What did you do?
Would these verses mend your heart torn in pieces?
The world has gone mute,
watching such a cruel massacre
What crime for these school children?
O, Kumba!
Beat the mourning drum,
Let the land gather to behold the deed.
O, beasts of no Nation!
Why the massacre of innocent souls,
What crime for these children?
The quest for education?
O, soul brothers!
Is there anything more devastating
Than watching a country caught in a senseless war?
The world has ignored our plea…
But
Nemesis will hearken to our cries.
But who the hell are these beasts of no nation?
© October 24, 2020
W. E Richardson
Nchifor Khan on his part is asking what next?
Those things we only heard
Happening in places far away
Are now rocking our land
Piercing our hearts everyday
After Ngarbuh, Kumba bled
Kids’ blood paint the town red
But what next?
We must moan and groan
These kids who went to learn
But received bullets in the head
Their books painted with their blood
But what next?
Like these school kids
Many have been sacrificed
For what they know not
For a crime they didn’t commit
But what next?
As usual we all condemn
War mongers apportion blame
But beyond the criticism
But beyond the blame game
But what next?
_Nchifor Khan_
Another Tribute to the victims of the Kumba massacre by Nkwenti Jude
Oh Kumba oh kumba 
