ODE TO MOTHERLAND

ODE TO MOTHERLAND BY ASIIMWE SAM RUHINDI

Cloudburst of bullets

Millions of innocent quenched machetes

Streams of blood drained our land

Acrid sent covered heavens

Vultures and Reynard fed

The world turned a blind eye

The days were filled with ichor

And nights short to the hunted

They said love is the way and answer

But look how they treated us

Made us believers and we

Slew each other furiously

Brushing aside our brotherhood
what was a family became a ruin  

Twenty one years down the road

The light glistered again

In the land of thousand hills

We now remember to keep

Alive memories of genocide

To teach our selves

Our children and

Children after them

Not judge each other by

Their ethnicity, height 

Or shape of nose

We remember not to revenge

But to learn from our history x2

To unite and save our future

A thousand candles are lit

Every year as a sign of peace

We want to pass on to

Our children and generation after them

We walk in same rhyme

ND'UMUNYARWANDA X3

We bind together saying never again

To genocide against humanity

Never and never again