I am from Lehae
An attractive, chilled and friendly place taken over by drugs.
A place with no facilities where youngsters nor people could showcase their talents.
I am from a place with only one primary school, which lacks resources.
A place with no nearby clinic, police station, complex or garage.
A neat, clean place surrounded by taverns,
it’s a birthday every weekend.
A place where education got its people.
A place where we wake up and see no purpose in life.
A place where young boys use weapons to survive, where young girls use their bodies to get what they need or want.
A place filled with Gangsterism; if you are not ghetto, you can never make it.
It is where we fight for survival.
I am from Lehae!!
A place where depression is confused with being bewitched.
Where drug users lose their minds because of Crystal Meth.
A place where you meet your peers and burst into tears, not that of joy but sadness.
Drugs and alcohol have taken over.
Oh! Dear Lord, please hear us out.
I am from a place where people lead us from other places.
We are led by counsellors who do not relate to our challenges.
A counsellor that gives you change but considers it as money to people with no jobs, rehabs, clinics, police stations and shops.
A counsellor that uses young girls.
A place with a library that has not been launched since 2017.
I am from Lehae.
May we be at least noticed by the government our counsellor has failed us.