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