Oh Mama, Save Me

Mama, O mama

Save me na.

Come and help me

I need you ma.

Lured by the smell of food

I came here away from you.

But now I regret my greed

I should have waited for you

To get me my meal.

You could have stopped me

Saved me from this grief

Now the Fate seems cruel

As I suffer in solitude.

The food is meagre

Placed to lure the fool.

And I proved to be that fool

Lure in the trap

Only to suffer and weep.

Running around the prison

I chose for me

Remembering your warnings

I didn't heed.

Now I fear the worst

That will come indeed

A future without thee

The worst that will happen to me.

O mama where are you?

Come now, please

Mama I'm small, And Weak

Not mighty like thee

I neither have strength

Nor the courage to stay still

While they peer at me

Laughing and teasing

Kicking the cage I'm in

But careful as not to give me

A passage to flee.

The thought of them

leaving me in a different street

Shook me from crown to heel.

O Mama, where are you?

Save me, before they

Sent me far away from you.

Wake up, wake up

My baby

I'm here

Close to you.

It was, but a dream

I'm here with you.

Look around

You're here in your hole

No one has caught you

it was just a dream

You are Safe my baby

Look I'm with you.

But Mama (sobbing)

Why are they so cruel?

Can't they leave us

And let us live?

Have some food

That god has given?

Is it too much

If we get some little things?

From those

Whom God has given everything?

Why is God so cruel towards us?

Are we not his children?

Or is it just humans

Who are his loved ones?

Does he not create us?

Or the food he provides

Just belong to humans?

Tell me, O Wise Mama

Why is it?

Why are we caught

And separated from our kin?

Why do we need to be cautious

Whenever around them?

Can't we have a peaceful existence?

It was, but a dream you say

But who says it will

Never be true again?

Why has God made us

pitiful and weak?

You asked me to be patient

And wait for my meal

But Why ?

Why can't I go and take

What I need?

Why do they treat me

like I'm a thief?

I'm his child

Just like human beings.

It is my right to live

And to eat.

Why should I be punished

And called a thief?

While exercising my right

And Fulfilling my need.

O Mama tell me this

Am I not to Live?