Poetry
Publisher: Kuumba Books
Uplifting, motivational, and empowering, the poems in For Orphans, Lost
Children, Youth, and Whom It May Concern celebrate resilience, compassion,
spirituality and, above all, the power of dreams to spawn hope for the
future.
Rolly Lambert Fogoum’s second poetry collection clusters heartfelt
and passionate poems speaking to orphans, the deliberately silenced, and the
ignored. By turns lyrical, introspective, and epistolary, the
collection’s force builds as the poems appeal to our compassion. Often
directly addressing the forsaken, this collection takes us on a journey
through empathy, chronicling painful times, but also heralding hope for
better times to come.
EXCERPT
Introduction
She walked and reached out to a human:
Please help, I am starving, she said kindly
It was freezing as she spoke to the man
She looked both tired and sleepy.
She was trying but she couldn’t walk
She was in pain, with blisters on her feet
It was a miracle that this little girl could talk
She was exhausted and had nothing to eat.
She was pale, like a rat in a trap
Her journey must have been a long trial.
The man wore a coat, nice boots and a cap,
She had been waiting for him for a while.
Her clothes had holes, her shoes were gone
On her shaky little legs, she was standing.
The man drank coffee, giving her none
“Sir, please” looking at him, she was mumbling…
But he didn’t hear or he pretended
She muttered: “Please sir, can you help me?”
Then, the man looked annoyed and offended,
As if this little girl he didn’t want to see.
And before she sighed, the man walked away.
Bending on her knees, she fell on the floor
He was her last hope, it was her last day,
She died in the old clothes that she wore.
Oh lord, this is a sad and painful story
Was that man really a human or not?
For that little girl I feel so sorry,
I want to give her everything that I got.
This is why I write this little book
In the world, many children die every day
For some kids, mom is not there to cook
Others are abandoned on the way.
This book is for the lost children,
It’s for the orphans and kids who suffer
For the humans who treat children badly
For a parent wishing a child to be greater.
This book is for those who lost their brother(s),
You who have no one to laugh at your joke
This is a book for those who lost their sister(s),
For the little bro and sis who are hungry and broke.
This book is for the children who are crying,
Crying for being abandonment sadly;
It’s hard to have lost parent(s) or sibling(s)
And have no food, no shelter, no family.
This book is for all the children, everywhere
It is for them that these lyrics I feature
This book is for everyone, anywhere
Children are the hope of the future.
This book is for you who are now a widow
And for you who live alone as a widower
For men and women who live with sorrow
Your children are gone, their days over.
A man is not his words or his surface
A man is his heart, his deeds and actions
Same goes for women at any given place
We are defined by our social interactions.
This book is one of my actions indeed
And I encourage you, dear readers
To keep giving, and help those kids in need
The world will be better, children are future leaders.
About the Author
Rolly Lambert Fogoum Tameza, mostly known as Rolly Lambert Fogoum, is a
professional boxer and a humanitarian. He graduated with a B.A. from the
Faculty of Law and Political Sciences at the University of Yaounde II, Soa
in 2013 and began a professional boxing career in 2014, with his first fight
in Dubai. During a hiatus from boxing, he competed as a fitness model,
winning awards in several categories.
He returned to boxing in 2018 and won several titles, including Universal
Boxing Organisation Africa Champion in Ghana in 2020, World Boxing
Organisation Africa Champion in Dubai in 2021, World Boxing Association Asia
Champion and World Boxing Council Asia Champion in Thailand in 2022. His
first book, Light Your Inner Spark for Days of Grace, was published in
2021.
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