Mother

Ethiopia, Ethiopia- remember;

We are more than we’ve been taught.

We’ve become something we’re not.

Ethiopia, Ethiopia- remember;

We hold healing in our bones,

The first peoples casting stones—

When we could just be a home for each other.

Ethiopia, Ethiopia;

What if we could love each other?

Ethiopia, Ethiopia;

See ourselves in one another?

Ethiopia, Ethiopia;

Healing has come for the Mother.

Ethiopia;

You have children scattered across the globe

Waiting to see if you can be more

Than the governments who claim to hold us

Or was home never love, too?

Ethiopia, Ethiopia;

We are watching you.