Lazy: My Brother in the Diaspora Calls Me
May 24, 2021
To the children of Africa in the diaspora who rob their brothers of empathy.
Cape Coast, Ghana
Agadez, Niger
Door of No Return
One forced into ships.
The other voluntarily on foot
One tossed in the Atlantic
The other braving the Sahara
Into slavery
Into prostitution
Into abuse
And many into death
Yet my brother calls me lazy.
In far away comfort he says I refuse to work
I keep trudging till the sand meets the sea.
For my eyes could not see
The opportunities that my brother ran away from
Luckily, in an airplane
Emem Andrew’ 2021