TODAY IS YOUR DAY

                                         

I think about the time, not so long ago

That when ever I needed a helping hand

You always offered one.

When ever I needed a friend you were the best always

Your winsome smile has been my light

 

It seems like yesterday

How we were pretty little song birds

How we used to dance amaganda together

Worrying nothing about the future

As we were young and innocent

But today is your day

Today the two of you have said goodbye

To spinster and bachelorhood

it’s the day every girl dreams of

And every man lives to celebrate

And even wishes to his children

Today is your day.

My love as you walk your man down the aisle

To show him to your parents and friends

Turn back and flash that winsome smile

That you always wore

Let everyone know and feel it that…….

Today is your day.

I was a prince and you were the princess

But today you’re the queen coz you found your king

And am still the prince…..

Today is your day.

Your care and love to me and big brother

Is so deep like a mothers love to her child

Your advices has made us stay strong and courageous

Your sacrifice as you pray for us is incomparable

Your smile takes away my grief always

All my life you’ve an angel and you’ll always be.

I cant talk about friendship because it’s all that we have

Oh what a life to live

What bond that we share.

Your fight was my fight

And every time that I was down

You’d always get my feet back on the ground

Today is your day.

You’ve been a spiritual mother to many

But today you’ve opened the doors to your biological children

Oh wow how blessed they will be to call you mom

Just like how your spiritual children have been

Today is your day

Today your man is the richest no because he

Owns fancy things in the world

But because he won the heart of the most

Pretty lady in the world and today he marks

His greatest achievement

Today is your day yes it is you day

How I will miss those endless stories

The evening selfies  we always took

The shortest texts at the middle of the night saying hi

And how in the morning you always asked me

If I was dreaming about you or had a night mare

Kana kamamawowebwizabudashir’irorankuratenkuratirande

Kuwonakakuratiyeyagukunzecyera

Rekankuratenkutoneshemaze azagukunde

Agukundwakazeakurutisheabandi.

My love hold every memory as you go

When you miss me cry not as our bond is unbreakable

My heart will always beat  where your heart will be

And my smile is still your smile

Today is your day

Before I leave the stage and turn back the pages

Of the poem allow me to tell you something

Special I always told you

I LOVE YOU yes I LOVE YOU

Today is your day Peace.

I was a prince and you were the princess

But today you’re the queen coz you found your king

And am still the prince…..

Today is your day.

DEAR GIRLS

DEAR GIRLS BY ASIIMWE SAM RUHINDI

                               

                                  

 We are really blessed to

you always make our days

Have you by  our side

But I need to ask you a favor, warning

It’s about the words you call boys

Yes sometimes you might be

Kidding but sometimes kidding

Turns into reality.

Dear girls

Every boy is not

A creepy manhore

Player or womanizer

And many more you know them

Just like how back

In my junior & high school days

In my sweet teenage hood

Girls used to call boys

I know we are not perfect

Sometimes we might  not mean our words

But we are not born that way

We are born to be brave and loving

Responsible and caring

Do you remember your first love

During your teenage hood

The promises you made and

How you broke them just

In a blink of an eye?

Because your eyes fell

For that nice guy you

Then called mr perfect  and

Later dumped you

Harya ngo abumwe agatukisha bose

Am so mad at this saying like real mad

My Goodness he is one in a million

Not a million in one

Please have sense of understanding

Do you remember the guy you had

Turned into your ATM machine

Every time you needed money he was always ready

And just because one day  he

Failed to control his feelings and

Reached down your pants makes you

Shout out to the world

Dear girls I want to ask you

A favor to help you small sisters

And your future daughters not

To call boys players..creepy because they aren’t.

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