ODE TO OUR HEROES

ODE TO OUR HEROES BY ASIIMWE SAM RUHINDI

Bene kanyarwanda do you remember
The nights of trembling
The days of ichor
And the world of tears.

The truth became lies
The lies took the throne
Forests sheltered us
And also fed us.

Killing was more than a game
Holding amachet was a pleasure
Betraying a friend was Joy and
Nights were short to the hunted.

The world kept a deaf ear
Watching carelessly yet they said
Love is the way and answer.

Your great sons and daughter
Never torolleted with situation
They sacrificed their lives
To bring light out of the darkness

Today what was aruin is a family
We all have awarm smile on our faces
We have a place we proudly call
Our home our mother land.

Their sacrifice was the cost
Of peace,unity,development we have today
Their patriotic spirit is our light every day
And always warm in our vains.

Their work is uncomparable
The land of thousand hills that was full of darkness
Is now a shinning star
That is lighting for the world

We your grand children
We want to keep your legacy alive
That's why we bid together in one
Umbrella ubutwari

We walk under the name Intore
Ubunyangamugayo is our motto
The spirit they left
Wont be forgotten.

WHOM WILL I BE?

 WHOM WILL I BE? by ASIIMWE SAM RUHINDI

Young leader

                                                      Lying here and my eyes wide open

As I reminisce on words of angel mom

She was always fascinated about my future

And now couple of years after

She crossed the Styx

I get in the same mood

About whom will i be

Ese will I be a man

And own my family

A wife to grow old with

 And we have winsome children?

Will I be a leader

Maybe a minister or

An ambassador of my country

In a country far from home

And have that spinning chair in my office

Also move in those big cars

Oh future answer me

Will I be a celebrity?

And start signing autographs to people

When the world knows my name

And my picture is in hall of fame

Whom will I be?

Will I be a hero who will

Change the world with words

Not guns and bullets

And get written in world history

Like nelson Mandela and Nkwame Nkrumah

And be a role model to many?

Will I die and have many mourners

 at my funeral making fine speeches

On how I was a great man

And the loss they will suffer

Will I be remembered of my personality?

Will I be remembered as a brave man?

Or a courageous man

Will my deeds count in my absence?

Future I have no more worries 

On whom I’ll be because my father

Says he has plans for me

To make me prosper not to harm me

Plans to give me hope and future

My name is SAM

This comes from SAMUEL

Meaning God has heard

Yes indeed he has and will always here me

Future i have no more worries on whom i'll be.

                                                                                                                                                                   Inspired by future will be alegend

REPOSE

                                                                 REPOSE

No one ever wants you to visit

even to talk about you

your so inhuman

every one calls you his name

i hear in Lusoga they call you walumbe

in kiswahili they call you kifo

and in french la mort

you come in a silent way

and leave no footprints behind

but only grief in our veins

you take laughters of our beautiful people

you take them with no departure echo

and hide them in the styx

where we'll never hear from them

you've claimed lives of innocent children

you've separated loved ones   

even the great men have left us

what do we owe you

that makes you behave this way

would you leave us 

if we gave you gold and diamonds?

Every time you pass by 

you leave mothers and children mourning

and eyes of men glued to the sky 

thinking on how they will also 

leave suddenly and

leave with out saying goodbye

to their children and wives

Oh walumbe! kifo! la mort!

why don't you have mercy

and stop making us pass 

Through this painful journey. 

……….ME & YOU

……….ME & YOU by Asiimwe sam Ruhindi

I woke up in grief

As I reminisce on words of grandpa

Before crossing the Styx

He used to tell me the world they lived

How beautiful it was

Full of peace and love

Of which is a myth to me now

Everyday walking up to breaking news

Of bombings around the globe

And I ask myself what happened

Where is the beauty he talked of?

Where did it fade to?

A million innocent lives perishing

Every now and then.

Which world will our children

And children after them live in?

Where is the peace we need?

Who will shelter for the homeless?

And feed the starving?

Is it an angel from blue sky?

More guns on street? ...No, not that

It’s you and me to change the world

Make it a better place

A paradise, not hell.

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

YOU LOVED ME

YOU LOVED ME        BY ASIIMWE SAM RUHINDI

Storm over my soul
Thunder and quake in my heart
Fear in my vein
But am not shaken
Because you loved me

In absence of parents
You cared for me
In absence of friends
you were the best friend
It's because you loved me

You wiped off my tears
Fixed my broken heart
Drew off my worries
Healed my wounds
Because you loved me

You're my crying shoulder
My resting place always
Source of my joy ever
You make my life meaningful
Because you loved me

My people have obulated my soul
To wicca for richness
But you,you gave out your son
To rescue my life
Because you loved me

PATRIARCH

PATRIARCH  by ASIIMWE SAM RUHINDI

Here your lying in crypt

PATRIARCH your always in our hearts
Ruhindi family.

so silent like old rock
flowers are smiling at your life
why did you cross the styx?
leaving me alone in this furious world
would you get up and talk to me
Did you love me?
If you loved me then 
Why go with matriarch
Tributaries of tears run
in our hearts always
Yawning to see you again
Vesta became my matriarch
and brother my patriarch
It's hard to bear this 
feeling when it's hard
to believe your absence
your people oblated us
To wicca for richness
would you wake up
and hold me closely
telling me everything is okey?
Oh patriarch patriarch.