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by Patricia Bamurangirwa


  If I had given up on you no one would have survived

  God says, I didn’t give up on you, I didn’t give up on you

  How could I give up on my own people?

  I’m the one who gives courage and heroism in RPF Inkotanyi

  Using everything possible to save the victims and defeat the demons

  FPR Inkotanyi did everything in a short time to save as many as they can save

  They pick up the casualities, still breathing or not, put them on the shoulder

  You saw how they defeated them in Kibeho when the killer had strong weapons from the French

  You saw how only one of them defeated thousands of them? That was me who was giving them all of that braveness.

  Don’t be frightened, I didn’t give up my people.

  All who have been killed are with me in my house

  They’re in my glory where it is reserved for them.

  Those who killed them, I cursed them and I’ll watch them wherever they are

  I warned you don’t try for revenge

  That it is my work only to judge and punish them

  Promote, unite and restore your unity I have inherited a long time ago

  Forgive, don’t forget, that message I give you to tell Rwanda

  I don’t stay away and return in Rwanda in the evening any more

  Instead Rwanda rwa Gasabo is now my blessed home

  Don’t be troubled, I didn’t give up on my people.

  EQUALITY

  Ooo I want the whole world to know and have an equality.

  Equality of imagination.

  I am fighting for my right

  I want it to be known that I am alive

  I want to be recognised by society

  Without equality people show power and become greedy.

  Create conflict, homelessness and death.

  Then refugees and asylum seekers.

  Look at Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya…

  So

  Please let us have equality.

  And what equality?

  Equality is confidence

  Is hope and life.

  Be happy to see others equal, by that you are giving them confidence, hope and life.

  Where they are equals you can’t see any kind of slavery, racism or bullying.

  Don’t give away what you have, if you don’t want to, but give them equality.

  With it we can save ourselves some gap between rich and poor, we see children kill themselves because of bullying.

  Why can someone shoot 170 bullets in only nine minutes to kill?

  Many times because they hate themselves and hate others too!

  They bereave that they don’t have equality and they lose confidence.

  They bereave that other people caused them misery

  Cho Seung –Hui, a young man of 23 years old, showed this in April 2007 in America when he killed 33 people before he killed himself.

  Let us try to live with others in an equal way.

  So that we can save ourselves some misery in our lives.

  I want to see equality in the whole world.

  FAREWELL TO THE KING

  At five years old he was the King

  He changed his appearance

  But hadn’t changed his heart.

  He was not white

  And he was not black

  He was the world.

  He didn’t want the world to turn him

  Around from his dream,

  Indeed he changed the world

  With his magic of dancing

  Moon walking and creation

  Of neutral sound.

  He changed the world

  With his genius

  Gentleness and generosity

  And made him reach his dream

  To become the world.

  He was a fighter who never stops

  Until he was up where he wanted to be.

  He knows that in life there are times

  You have to keep on trying and no

  Matter what be unchangeable

  And fight for your personality.

  With his sweetest and humanitarian heart

  It was easy for him to reach his dream

  To become the world.

  He managed to give many hope

  Confidence, happiness and smile

  He taught them how to love and how to live.

  He took them from a dark period

  And made them be better in their lives.

  He gives them treasure

  In their heart he was huge

  Part in their lives.

  He was and he will be their

  Hero for ever and ever.

  He was a giant King who wanted

  To heal the world and the people

  Through his music, art, love, decency?

  He has knowledge he has succeeded.

  He was their shining light.

  He showed them that

  If you believe you can.

  He was the most recognised

  Most well know and the most

  Loved person on our planet for 45 years.

  No one can ever possibly be him.

  He is in the Guinness book

  Of world records for his music

  And for helping others.

  In the 1980s he helped Ethiopia

  From hunger with the song We Are The World.

  He was the gift to the world.

  He was simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived.

  He was a money making machine.

  To hell with child abuse, they wanted his money

  Michael Jackson: he was the king of music at his time.

  And he loved by young and old.

  FAREWELL TO THE KING NO. 2

  He doesn’t accept limitations.

  He refused to let people decide his boundaries.

  He broke down the colour curtains.

  He didn’t let himself sink, always

  Managed to swim no matter what.

  His child like ways to others.

  People wanted a piece of him

  Wanted to touch him, to feel him.

  To feel him and to love him.

  Many wanted to be like him

  And to be with him.

  He had driven to the top himself and

  He had Neverland ranch…

  He was the best ever we could imagine.

  Some loved him more than themselves

  Rightly his life has a lot more add twists

  In the road than many

  Michael was like part of their soul.

  They can’t help it that is the way it was.

  Death is damned death.

  On 25 June 2009 the King of Pop was dead.

  It was big shock around the world

  Whatever race, colour, creed or culture

  It was so soon, he went in a sudden way

  And his death was big, tragic and a mystery.

  It broke their hearts, people were

  Disappointed with his death

  Especially when they heard rumours

  Of murder involved.

  Some, they killed themselves

  Others won all who loved the King.

  That Michael wouldn’t be happy with that

  That he loved people and wanted them

  To be happy in his life time and in his death time.

  If they have to cry

  They have to cry

  But through it all try to rise above it.

  And be strong to their pop icon.

  It was hard to believe

  It was so unreal that Michael had gone

  It was deep and emotional. As bizarre in death as he was in life.

  His originality changed the

  Land of music forever.

  One of the most widely global

  Beloved entertainers

  And profoundly influential artists

  Of all time on popular music

  And culture has gone.

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nbsp; But we will remember forever and ever.

  Can you feel it?

  Can you tell the happiness he gives the people?

  Can you feel the love he loved them?

  Can you tell how they loved him back?

  Can you feel the disappointment and

  Pain his friends, family and all who loved him have?

  He was not a strange man

  But he had to deal with strange things.

  That most famous man, notorious star

  On the planet, he was the father, son,

  Brother, uncle, friend, but more than

  That he was the world.

  His death was one of the most

  Astonishing days witnessed in America.

  People wanted him back

  He was too young to die.

  Michael born rich and died rich

  Too many had tattoos

  Of his name on their body.

  Felt that part of him will be with them

  Forever and part of them went with him.

  They had to be strong for Michael’s

  Legacy and remember that he taught them

  To be the best of what they are and strong

  To whatever comes in front of you.

  That is Michael Jackson.

  GOODBYE TO KING OF POP

  The farewell of the King

  Was the greatest show on earth.

  Greeted by a gospel choir

  Singing Hallelujah.

  We are going to see the King.

  His farewell was bigger

  Than Elvis’s and Princess Diana’s.

  Once Michael Jackson said

  That his own funeral was likely

  To be the greatest show on Earth.

  And that is how it was.

  It was watched by millions

  Of people around the world.

  There were big numbers

  Of police officers

  Private security teams Patrolled the event.

  Elephants, Tigers, Zebras

  And ponies from Ringling

  Bros and Barnum

  Bailey circus passed

  Through downtown L A.

  Dozens of LAPD motorcycle

  Outriders and the city’s

  SWAT teams

  Cars like Range Rovers

  Rolls Royces, Cadillacs, buses

  ambulances, police helicopters

  Several squad cars…

  It was the largest security

  Operation LA has ever seen.

  Just because of the King

  They were all kinds of people

  With big names

  Actors, politicians

  Civil rights campaigners.

  It reminded the world

  The legacy of the showbiz

  He has left behind.

  People in every corner of the world

  Whatever their race

  Colour or creed, they were lost for words.

  Michael was very meek

  Was great in his death

  As when he was in life.

  They warn that up to a million

  Could show up

  But organisers managed

  To limit the numbers.

  Some were selling their personal

  Possessions to pay for the trip.

  Front of them they were not seeing

  Discovered with red roses.

  But they see his golden heart

  His genuine way of life

  His childlike and his

  Innocent way of life to them.

  People came from all across casino

  The moment which will forever go

  Down in the history the world to witness

  The spectacular accession

  The moment which will forever go

  Down in history not only in America

  But all over the world.

  One global respected person at time

  Nelson Mandela, S Africa

  Among others in his message say

  That Michael was a giant and a legend

  In the music industry

  And he mourn with millions

  Of fans worldwide the loss of their dear friend.

  Yes, the giant has gone but will live forever.

  And the world can’t forget Michael Jackson

  He will be here ever and ever

  Born August 29, 1958, died June 25, 2009.

  FORGIVE

  There are sins you can forgive or

  Pretend to forgive, but can’t forget

  My Africa, full of love

  Peace and unity, of immeasurable richness.

  Your history is here to stay. 1434

  The first Europeans set foot in Africa

  Things started to change

  Not for better but for death.

  They robbed ten or twenty million African children

  Passed through a lot

  Of different trials and tribulations.

  Tied up like a goat,

  Thrown in the water alive, beaten, and raped!

  They loved Africa and made love to Africans

  At the same time

  Enjoyed seeing Africans die in slow motion.

  They robbed them of their culture, their identity,

  Their dignity.

  They gave Africa a new map,

  No African leader was present!

  And they called it international law!

  Africa, mixed up with culture, languages,

  Inter-marriages and confusion.

  Africans dying from anger and hunger.

  Poverty was the leader.

  War after unnecessary wars

  African children dying day and night.

  “Look,” you can hear them say, “look how Africans are killing each other, how they are greedy.” These dictators. This corruption

  The children don’t go to school

  Don’t have shoes and still they are dying from hunger.

  Brave Africa

  Yet Africa doesn’t have to be tied up

  With the past, follow your examples.

  Wake up, wake up Africa

  Follow the example of Mandela and forgive,

  But don’t forget.

  A time will come when you say

  Enough is enough.

  Rwandans refuse to be tied up to the past,

  They have to forgive,

  To forgive each other, and look to the future,

  But not to forget.

  Children of Africa in Europe and America,

  You have suffered in the name of slavery,

  But don’t be tied up with the past,

  Forgive or pretend forgive, but don’t forget,

  Look to the future.

  Together build back the continent,

  My Africa, full of love

  Forgive.

  THE FUTURE CAPITAL OF PALESTINE

  Every man’s wish is freedom

  And Obama’s is echoed in the change we need

  To fight against violent extremism

  Reject radical ideologies

  Respect human kind

  And more and more than anything

  A belief in the legitimacy of the two states

  Israel and Palestine

  I share this belief.

  As

  Both states share an intertwined history.

  It is not Jerusalem that is the problem

  It is the mind of the people

  To realise that

  Unity is the key

  Can you feel it? My tears are dried but my heart is bleeding.

  Are we so uncaring

  That we let our young ones fight

  Bullets and with stones

  Our young men, women and men

  Die in a cause I believe can be averted

  It is not Jerusalem

  It is us

  We have stopped caring about ourselves

  Life has become meaningless

  We have become militant

>   And we have people we classify as infidels

  No one is a brother!

  I don’t hate Palestine and I don’t hate the Jewish. What I want is equality

  If we have to share let us share

  Let the oasis of love flow

  Let the trumpet of hate stop

  Let anger dissipate

  And just watch

  How the blood will stop to flow

  For it stop!!

  Let the future capital of Palestine

  Be in the heart!

  Let us fight with map maker when and where is necessary

  If it can help to serve life

  Time is now to say that enough is enough.

  Give women a chance to be happy, to have babies, and give hope to a future generation: hope of life.

  Let the Holy City of Jerusalem be an example of peace, not an example of death.

  By Kwesigwa Sammy Muvunangoma

  HARD TIME

  No one who can want hard time to knock the door.

  They are time when can be hard time.

  No one ever wish to come across those times

  Sometimes you can be alone and lonely.

  That is hard time.

  Even when you have a lot at that time you can’t see.

  The eyes can see them but not the heart.

  At that you wish to know where to buy peace of your heart.

  You wish to give your soul enough protection

  To be away from loneliness and give it love

  Even if it can ask you to give away your wealth.

  You didn’t want to hate yourself just because you had a hard time.

  But sometimes you can do that, which is hard time.

  That is when someone thinks about taking away her/his life.

  Believe that no need to be alive.

  That is when you wish you can get somewhere to buy peace.

  Where to buy love.

  And to go away from loneliness.

  And maybe hatred.

  All you see is hard time.

  When the health become upside down.

  Your health or your loved ones.

  At that time no matter how much you have.

  Your eyes will see it but not your heart.

  What you have will not matter anymore.

  You will want to get where you can buy good health.

  So that you can feel better.

  So that you can feel normal.

  You can do whatever you can, to see that you get back your health.

  You want to help the loved one who the health

  Is refusing to help her or him

  But you don’t know how.

  After to do all you can

  You wish to carry her or his suffering.

  But you can’t.

  You wish to reduce or to finish his or her pain.

  But you can’t.

  That is hard time.

  Don’t think about the last time when you lose the loved one.

 

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