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From: awetnayu@hotmail.com
Date: Wed May 25 2011 - 16:51:50 EDT
The Eritrean Revolution
To lift, empower, nurture…
To free Eritrea from the past,
To propel-her…to the future,
Free from torture…
Free from the barbarian slavery of the West
Mercenaries of the West…
In earnest,
In the darkest of dawn
With a dream…nothing but a dream
A faith… trust on Eritrean
Barefoot, empty hand… empty belly
Ignorant of strategies…a plan
A walk into uncertainty…darkness,
A walk into the forest, desert…loneliness
Alone…ignorant of surroundings
Stranger on own land…revolutionaries
Uncertain of the future…destined
Ready to pay all…martyrdom
To pay life for life…limbs for life, livelihood for life
Exchanging personal aspirations and goals for life…sacrifices
Trusting…believing self…empowering self
Selfless, with selfless-aspirations
For greater good
Destined for greatness…
As the saying goes:
Candles give light… names lead…
Awate…Hamid Idris Awate for victory…
Eritrean victory
With a voice…one voice
A voice,
Loud voice for all to hear
A message…a call to action
A voice that lead to a trickle-up flocking
A voice that guided…a nation, people…
A voice that aroused…vision, a slog, lasting slogan…
Generic, tailor made slogan
A slogan that embraced…
Indiscriminate to gender, ethnicity, religion or region
A slogan that roared Awet N-Hafash
For victory of the masses
A voice calling for genuine sustainable victories
Victories based on principles
Principle that bequeathed self,
Sacrificing self for the sake of the other
Giving time, dedicating time
Believing and convinced…
The struggle will be long and victory a must!
Victory in stages, by categories…
Small victories…big victories…ultimate victory
Victory of, by and for the masses…
With spirited collective zeal
To propel communities
To propel villages, towns and ultimately all
One mother, a child and step a moment…
Amidst a thorny-hostile bushes…torment
Threats…hostilities
Overcoming all… against all odds
With leaders…elders
Determined mothers…leaders
Cheering, rearing-victories…for their sons-daughters
Consoling, uplifting, directing…wisdom
Telling stories of experiences…for purpose
Never faltering…anchored in history
History of barbaric colonizers…slavery
A torch lit in 61
A movement that traveled a destiny
To victory
In 91,
Dropping enemies like flies…
Making sure they cry at bay
Cleaning house…to start anew…a citadel
Afresh to green…feed…flourish…cherish
Grateful…at 20 yet, destined for more…
Committed, certain of the certainty
That Eritrea will always prevail
For those that perished so we can
Awet N-Hafash
Amanuel Biedemariam