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<body><div class&equals;"booster-block booster-read-block">&NewLine; <div class&equals;"twp-read-time">&NewLine; &Tab;<i class&equals;"booster-icon twp-clock"><&sol;i> <span>Read Time&colon;<&sol;span>1 Minute&comma; 5 Second <&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine; <&sol;div><p><&sol;p>I see brothers building borders and breaking brotherly bonds&period;<br>&NewLine;Leaders instigating conflicts while looting public funds&period;<br>&NewLine;Battle chants brewing from a distance&period;<br>&NewLine;Is war inevitable&quest; or are there plans&comma;<br>&NewLine;To stop the war virus before it spreads&period;&NewLine;<p>I see sisters&comma; sighing on seeing soldiers&period;<br>&NewLine;For leaving their brothers like broken jars&period;<br>&NewLine;Battered and shattered with weapons of all kinds&comma;<br>&NewLine;Just for speaking their minds&period;<br>&NewLine;Sisters prematurely turned mothers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I see children crying ceaselessly&comma;<br>&NewLine;From hunger and pestilence persistently&period;<br>&NewLine;Children torn from their parents&comma;<br>&NewLine;By mayhems agents&comma;<br>&NewLine;Like an old piece of Nigerian wax in harmattan&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I see fathers fleeing from farms&comma;<br>&NewLine;Loosing legs and arms to men with arms&period;<br>&NewLine;Fathers burying their young son&comma;<br>&NewLine;Singing sad songs of sorrow as they mourn&period;<br>&NewLine;Praying&comma;cursing&comma;wishing and lamenting&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I see mothers&comma; 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