Where are you now?
Growing up you were taught that leaders are there to protect and serve the interest of people but over the years that has changed. I'm just a kid attending university but every single semester I watch my parents work day and night for a salary that isn’t enough to provide food and finance my education. This is now the normal lives of many Zimbabweans. Many children are dropping out of school every single day not because they want to or that they are not intelligent enough but because their parents cannot afford to pay their school fees. Every single day people are losing their loved ones in their homes because they cannot afford to send them to hospitals.
Our country every single day is murdering many people. Parents have to watch their children die of hunger, communicable diseases because the people they trusted to serve them have become deaf to their needs and no longer provide the services they promised. Aren’t leaders meant to protect their citizens and provide for them? Every single day people pray to God, each family hoping for a miracle, parents hoping for salaries so they provide food for their kids. All these are symptoms of a corrupt society ruled by greedy individuals who only think of themselves. They watch on television of how many people are dying yet on our own channels they tell us that these journalists are liars.
A new breed of criminals has taken over our society yet the poor and lawless just watch and remain at the mercy of all these people. Many voices are crying out loud yet the sound that people hear is that of silence that’s killing many of our loved ones. For how long are we going to listen to the sound of silence and watch people die? For how long are we going to watch our children’s lives get snatched away by people who promised to be our protectors? Isn’t health a right no more? Is not safe water, education not a right no more? Since when has the basic needs of human being become a luxury yet they say we are educated enough?
How many of you are sick of just sitting on the side-lines watching the lives of every single person you love pass by? Even men of God meant to better society and right the wrongs are now our number 1 con artists, conning us out of the little money we have all in the name of miracles. I ask myself what my future holds then if every single person that was meant to protect and to build us is the same person that is destroying us more and more. For how long is fear going to rule us into living hell on earth when hell is meant for the dead and sinners? Isn’t it about time as young people we stood up for the future we want?
This is just a young person thinking out loud what you are all thinking. As people we were meant to be courageous enough to ask for what we want. How can you be a protector when you always play it safe? The big question is WHERE ARE THE LAW MAKERS, OUR LEADERS, and OUR PROTECTORS? WHERE ARE THE SERVICES, THE RIGHTS WE FOUGHT FOR.HOW MUCH LONGER ARE GOING TO SIT AND WATCH PEOPLE DIE, FOR HOW LONG SHOULD WE SUFFER BEFORE YOU REALISE YOUR WRONGS.
AS GOD IS THE JUDGE I HOPE YOU WILL HAVE GOOD CONVINCING ANSWERS WHEN HE ASKS WHAT YOU DID FOR HIS PEOPLE, AND I QUOTE A FAMOUS ARTIST DANTE’ “THE DEEPEST DARKEST PLACE IN HELL IS RESERVED FOR THOSE WHO REMAIN MEDIOCRES IN TIMES OF CRISIS”.
