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From: awetnayu@hotmail.com
Date: Sat Apr 02 2011 - 23:11:26 EST
Respite for Eritreana
Yes, respite
A breeze
A moment to exhale…
To gather thoughts and
feel
Feel the freedoms earned
with dear blood…
Dear
souls
Yes respite,
To feel the music
Traditional music…
embracing traditions
With traditional…modern instruments,
Orchestra, with
conductors…
In their honor
Yes, respite
To look around,
Gather trinkets,
artifacts, historic arts
To take stock of
history,
Ancient history, for
knowledge, to account for…
To regain loses
To rebuild the
destruction anew
Yes respite…
To breeze fresh air
Air of calmness,
Free from distress,
imposed distress, undue distress…unwarranted stress,
Free from breeze of
negativity,
>From schemes and
schemers
Free from claimants of
all that is good for their evil deeds…
>From the flailing weed
that claim to belong
Yes, respite…
For the mother, grandma,
and sister
To breeze a breath of
calm
Respite from the
restless, restless-souls… the soulless…
Respite from
anticipation and worries
For once
Yes respite…
>From greed, the
greedy-despotic
>From the evil powers…the
barbaric
>From the dogmas of liars
that claim to be democratic
Yes respite…
For the young to learn,
To roam free, play,
dance and hop
To aspire, reach for the
sky
To embrace the world,
fearlessly
To embrace the future
that is now…unimpeded
With courage,
confidently
Yes respite
To step, the steps of
freedom…uncompromised
In a road that is paved
with pure blood
Blood aplenty…
For freedom… your
freedom
Freedom from fear
Freedom from shackles,
Freedom from dungeons
and darkness
Yes respite…
To aspire
To reach for higher
goals
Goals…beyond and above
Facing challenges and
overcoming odds
Succeeding where all
that tried have failed and are failing…
Yes respite…
To reach beyond what is
expected…for the dark -race
To be…beyond what they
expected us to be…
Above them
In unison
With love
Love of the other
Love of country, our country
Yes respite…
To live life
Life that is wholesome…holistic life beyond
strife of needs
Life that is fulfilling without compromises
Life that is charted by and for us
Life that we chose not chosen by others…For others
Life worthy and satisfying…To those who perished
so we can…
As we are
In their honor
In a youthful nation
On her twentieth birthday
Amanuel
Biedemariam