I AM FED UP

Poem by Adama Bah

I am fed up with the world's noise,

With all the chaos and the poise,

With all the things that I can't change,

With all the people, strange

I am fed up with the endless news,

With all the things that we can't refuse,

With all the things that we can't control,

With all the things that take their toll.

I am fed up with the endless strife,

With all the things that make us fight,

With all the brutalities happening in Gaza,

With the Russian-Ukrainian War,

With the silence of the ICC and Human Rights Activist.

I am fed up with my stay in the kingdom,

with all the stress of having to wake up every day without my family and loved ones,

With all the anxiety I had to go through to validate my modules,

With all the feelings of cognitive dissonance,

With all the noodles and omelets, I had to eat every day.

I am fed up with the people,

With all the miseries covered with fake smiles,

With all the pretends and ingenuity,

With all the unwelcome faces that I had to endure sometimes.

I am fed up with my country,

with all the low levels of development in different sectors,

with all the inadequate opportunities for youths especially graduates,

with all the tribalism that increased the rate of conflict, that we can't control.

I am fed up with my government,

With all the political instabilities,

with all the politician and their political propaganda and philosophies,

with all the high rates of corruption and nepotism, that I can't change.

I am fed up with the system,

With all the situation changing from what I know to who I know,

With all the old people refusing to relinquish

their position for the young competent ones,

With all the injustice happening to the poor.

I am fed up with MOHERST

With the continuing saga of the master’s students not receiving stipends,

With all the late arrivals of the stipend every year,

With the absence of new faces for the past years, we can’t control.

I am fed up with the internet,

With all the time wasted,

With all the manipulation and misleading,

With all the fake and continuous scams on people happening now and then.

I am fed up with the national team,

With the endless biased selection of players in every competition,

with all the poor preparations and performances in competition,

with all the GFF staff, the president, and the co,

For not providing us with good sports equipment and a stadium of international standard.

I am fed up with the football world,

With the continuous debate between Messi and Ronaldo,

With all the racial abuse to the African or black footballers,

With all the unnecessary intervention of VAR,

With all the increased numbers of anterior cruciate ligament injuries game in game out,

With the endless saga of the Super League.

I am fed with the backway,

With the government silent about all its crises,

With the youths playing Russian roulette with their life in search of a better life,

with all the statistics of boats that sank,

With all the statistics of deaths, I hear always,

with the high rate of unseen dead bodies that couldn't get a proper burial,

With all the cries of parents hearing the deaths of their children while still young and healthy,

With the grief of family members dying in the same boat,

With the agonizing and lethal pain of dying in the Mediterranean Sea.

I AM FED UP THAT YOU ARE FED UP

I AM FED UP THAT I AM FED UP!!!!

But in the end, I know it's true,

That I can't change the world for you,

So, I'll just take it day by day,

And hope that things will be okay.