World, People and Humanity

The creatures you made

Thu, 22 Apr 2021 14:50:14 GMT

In the beginning it was good

No,....... Great,.. Great.

In that comforting, warm fluid

Spent days and nights in darkness

But never scared as out here in the light

Swimming in the womb freely

Listening to the endless music

From mom's heartbeat and inner organs.

Thinking of it, it's a paradise

Life here has never been predictable;

Some found home on the planet

And community treated them right.

Other part found themselves as travelers

Just passing through life to the afterlife.

Broken beyond repair

Ain't troubled by loneliness

Don't need much to feel at ease

Just a screen and a couch in place

And a weekend indoors is as a minute!

Them, who never ask to fit in the crowd

Prefer outsiderish but inner selves

Fam on the heart but don't keep in touch.

Never look forward to incoming call

As vamps never wait for sunshine

If you're wise enough

Please, keep judgements to yourself

None ever paid a cent for the trait

That time you realize

You don't know what to tell a friend

In the grief of losing a mama, papa

Cause you were never told so.

Not because you're luckier enough

To still have them around ,

But never got the chance to bury them.

Then you're among those

Humankind born to history

Just a remainder, you're not alone.

To you all short sighted leaders

Benefiting from wars despite of our screams

Siding with racism and discrimination

Be aware of creatures you're making

Of same generation of your offsprings.

I was just passing by!

©Cide

What could be enough for you?

Sat, 10 Apr 2021 11:59:21 GMT

Abolishing the kingdom reign

Establishing the new regime of your choice

Gaining the total control of the nation

Owning the right to decide what to be done

Wasn't that enough?

Able to send your kids to school

To become future rulers and priests

Some into decision makers for the country

And make your family proud indeed

Wasn't that enough?

They were a minority group

You had nothing to be afraid of

If you'd have chosen unity and peace

And love to flourish among your people

Was it necessary sending them to exile?

What happened to the old custom?

Of sitting together and brainstorm as a trio

Seeking answers to the threat of the nation

Three Stones hold a cooking pot, culture says

Why would you need to throw the third away?

Smashing it completely would give you

Nothing but a lot of sand on the ground

Knock knock on the door; land infertility

That wasn't a poverty solving strategy

But hatred flowing in your veins

Almost to burst your innocent heart.

Taking away fathers and brothers

Would've made sense to humankind history

Yet, you were too far from your satisfactions

You crossed the line on moms and kids

Even reached to fetus swimming in the womb!

I wonder if you made peace with your mind

I wonder if it was really worthy doing

I wonder if your god is proud of you

Cause you're a disgrace to Benimana

A traitor in front of our ancestors' God.

@Cide

9/4/2021

The Cost of Hope.

Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:32:35 GMT

Security; the source of life with a purpose.

Have you ever give a thought of how life would be, without a purpose? Just living a day, with no guarantee that tomorrow you will hear bird songs of the dawn, see the sun rising, schedule whole day in the morning, sweating on the midday, enjoy the sky view of sunset, feel the breeze of twilight!

The school would be an imagination, formal education and sciences would sound as a myth! There would no such thing as planning, and we would be stuck in the middle of nowhere. You may or will have to come across the question “What is and how do you define security?” For some, grown up in a certain underdog region would look up into your eyes, straight to your face and simply say “The absence of war!” On the other side, you will get different answers as “Peaceful time, Freedom from disturbance, absence of threats, tranquility,..”. You can give your own answer, and describe that great word according to your point of view, in the end, you will get to see that security is Development. A great number of people around the world have born and raised under the rhythm, continuous beat of gunshots, and only God knows when to put a period on the situation. In the war, we only think of surviving, thriving cause we just live a day, while at peace, we think of growing; Rich, Intelligence, Family, finally our Country.

Everyone on the planet deserves a chance to live a peaceful life, planning for grandchildren, having hope of living a couple of decades ahead. I am thankful because I am living it as a Rwandan, and I keep praying for those still looking for that we have. I keep asking myself “What would happen if none cared?” Luckily, I am still standing, thanking our force, the men on duties, sons on the frontlines, may God bless them and their offsprings. Keep thinking of super heroine’s acts of those particular people in our lives. Let's be among the ones to make a change, to leave behind something great to be remembered for.

I wish you all to have Security.

The flow of the river.

Mon, 30 Mar 2020 06:48:39 GMT

Karma reflecting writings,

Have you ever felt the pressure of the wind, strong enough to withstand, but your feet couldn’t move for an inch?!

At a moment, at a specific time, deep down in the ground rocks, fresh water capacity will surpass the resistance of the resistance of the comfort zone walls, and finally come out on the surface, to the sight of every living. The ground will always provide a path to the water to follow. Unfortunately, sadly, It will be a one way flow.

The born river will create its route, hitting and moving things in its way, with eagerness of growing bigger and bigger. As long as it goes, it will gather lots of water from different sides on the way. The color changes, the river bank keep diverting, and the flow speed keeps increasing. At a certain point on its way, there will be a waterfall, either low or high, the water will fall either way. At the time the water hit the bottom, it is the one of rarest moment you will find a two way flow in the river! Unfortunately, it ain’t last long. Depending on the height of the waterfall, it will take water a certain time to bounce back from the bottom to the surface, and continue the original one way flow.

If there is a thing we have to learn from rivers, is “Flexibility”; no matter how bigger it gets, it will hit unmovable heavy rocks, meet huge mountains. Thus, it will have to make thousands of corners, but keeps finding a way to go on. It does meet lots of hardships on the way, yet it feeds uncountable creatures, not forgetting the power it provides to lighten our cities. But, a wonder question is, what does it get back in return? At the end of the day, we all know the rivers as the trash bins to move our wastes! If rivers could cry, we couldn’t handle the scream through our ears, the sea level would rise every second. If rivers could bleed, the planet’s color would definitely be red.

I do feel that pain, that sorrow of not getting back what you deserve, but sometimes, we ain’t got the power to change a single thing about it. We only pray for it to finally find its well assigned destination, the place and the moment it meets the ocean/sea, when the loneliness one way flow ends, and start to feel the storm of togetherness. Amen.

What ifs?

Thu, 05 Mar 2020 06:01:23 GMT

Karma reflecting writings,

Our planet was never a plane, look around you; hills and valleys are the reminder that life shouldn't have a straight path to follow. Life is like a bunch of inter-twisting lines, light and dark go along, good and evil are like twins. People will always have expectations, high most of the time, which lead us to forgetting that we can't do it all. No matter how hard we try, either the sky or the sun, we hit the limit of our capability. Whenever we try something in our lives, and later on it goes south unfortunately, we directly kick out the spirit that we did what we could, thus frustration finds the spot in our vulnerable mind. Here only comes a tone of different "What if" questions (some meaningless) which we can't even find their answers on our own! "What if I was this/that, What if I had this/that, What if I was born here/there, What if humans were twice as intelligent, What if human had eagle sight? What if we eat a single type of food?!"
Time flies like a wind, and there is no rewind. "What if " is a great, meaningful question indeed, with a rich philosophy behind it that can give us a lesson capable of shaping our doings in our society. If you take your time, and ask calmly yourself "What if tomorrow never comes? What if today is my last day? " What kind of am I leaving behind to be remembered for? Was I able to accomplish what I had to in life? I know it's a mind blowing question that would cause most of us to freak out! So, why wouldn't we start caring about what is necessary in our life, to the community? I ain't here to tell you about the good and bad, I know deep down in your soul you know the different between the two. Just follow your heart, do good to the people, Be the best human you can. Thank you.

The Community Work Day

Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:06:41 GMT

URSU-Nyarugenge Campus held the community work of March 25, 2017 at Mageregere sector, G.S. Burema

March 25, 2017, The University of Rwanda Students Union (URSU ) of Nyarugenge Campus attended the community work day at G.S.Burema in Mageragere Sector, Nyarugenge District. The attendance of the students was pretty wonderful as they were about the number of a hundred accompanied by the dean of students of the campus. The main goal was to give back to the community that sustains the everyday life of our beautiful country, Rwanda. Groupe Scholaire Burema is one of the five schools in the whole country in partnership with HANDICAP International in the program of developing the Child friendly Schools ( Inclusive Education), where education is accessible to all children including children with disabilities. NUDOR was there too, they prepared the volleyball pitch for sport and recreation. We also thank their caring quality for improving the quality of life of people with Disabilities. NUDOR provided two wheelchair to ones in need then. The program of inclusive education is becoming quite successful as nearby parents started to show up their children from the houses, and take them to school so they can have the right to education. There was a challenge of one block of classrooms where it is very difficult for the child in wheelchair to get into, due to bad landscape. We did our best with a storm of youth courage and we change the landscape so the wheelchair guys can access the classrooms with no difficulties. After that, we payed for thirty(30) poor people from the cell, and other two people got the goats! That was not enough, but it is what we could as students at the time. Let's hope the courage and the compassion of our youth will continue for years and years, generations to generations. We hope God is on our side, Let us make Rwanda proud!

Pre-colonial Rwanda

Sun, 18 Dec 2016 00:00:00 GMT

Let's take a journey back in days of our history!

Pre-colonial Rwanda was a highly centralized Kingdom ruled by Tutsi kings who came from one ruling clan, Banyiginya since the first king, GIHANGA. The king ruled through three categories of chiefs: cattle chiefs; land chiefs; and military chiefs. This helped the King to recognize and be able to resolve problems of all Rwandan citizens in all categories. Also Rwandans were all like brother and sisters in their beliefs, they used to put their strength together to fight against the enemy for the sake of the country. They Knew the existence and the power of God, they believed the God could help in the war time.