The face of danger
My people do not know
How not to laugh in the face of danger
Danger of the unsmiling eyes
Danger with the sunken smile
Danger is no stranger here.
The children know her tilted
The cankerous woman
She is the next-door neighbor
That comes regularly to ask
For salt, sugar or trouble.
And here she comes again,
But she’s nothing new.
She’s lived with us our whole lives
she kills our brothers,
Or kidnaps our sisters
Yet there’s nothing we can do.
We may leave our homes,
To a strange land.
But Danger dwells here,
Sitting on the laps of our leaders
And making our people suffer,
So what can we do
But laugh in her face?
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