Poverty, in my country, is a way of life. People have been adjusting themselves to a situation depriviation. Living with severe shortages in terms of basic services has become an accepted norm of life. I think a change must come from within ourselves rather waiting it to come from outside. We should work hard to make a change in our life and not rely on mere textbook information which says Somalia has potential mineral endowments but not actually coming up with strategies to tap these resources. Leadership failure in Somalia has caused our people to sit on a golden rock while starving to death. That has to change, no matter how long takes.

If I read the books
I see light of hope
Words are so juicy
So appetizing indeed

They have some weight
In them they have power
They speak of fortunes
Of large oil deposits
Of uranium and diamond

But between the lines
I see a fading light
The country is in war
Its people are dying

It is plaqued by diseases
Devastated by malnutrition
Shattered by despondency
Gang-raped by warlords

Never had it been ruled by its people
Never its people had ever owned it
It is Somalia in the Horn of Africa
Poor in reality, wealthy in textBooks