Oromantic’s Weblog

Where to begin, where to start

to differntiate the truth and what is not

They always talk of a “Galla invasion”

sixteenth century sudden explosion

a fictitious story they tell

could make a theatre swell

they tell us we came all the way from Madagascar

in the sixteen hundreds we had speed boats and car

semetic Habeshas coming from South Arabia

 knowing all too well, we stretch from Nubia to Somalia

told the world a different story

a made up hateful tale by Aba Bahrey.

Let me set the record straight

Cushitic Oromo is native, Habeshas came of late.

Before the rise of Axum

and before Habeshas started to assume

that Ethiopia was their land

Kush was walking on sand

an ancient colonizer like England.

Before we fell into colonization

we colonized an ancient nation.

Yes, back in the days Kush colonized Egypt

That was long before Habeshas interrupted

Before they had the now obsolete “Ge’ez civilization”

and before what they call “ager maqnat” notion

Kush was the base for Egyptogreek civilization.

We taught them astronomy and government

Greek democracy is only Gadaa deployment.

Extraordinary engineering skill founded the pyramids

Kush’s achievment is a pride for all hominids.

Ezana came and destroyed Meroe

only then failed our arrow

bringing lots of sorrow

for the first time Cush fell from Grace

and had to leave its place

commencement of our journey south

let the Arabian settlers to open their mouth

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