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Mar 2020
our brother is immortal!
when your only name at home is traitor
when all your mother nation can
give you is death
when your mother nation reigns you
with terror
when your only survival is behind
enemy lines
when you cannot even trust your
own son or father
singing your mother nation's anthem
in exile and servitude
your cause seizes to matter

you saw this coming,
it is now before your faces
it is now before your comrades
you saw this coming!
it is stealthily devouring you with
all your family, company,
past and future that was to be bright
toil no more brother!
that is all your mother nation
gives you at her knees
toil no more brother!
mother nation has given you bread
the bread of death
toil no more brother!
for the afterlife anxiously
waits for you, your
unfulfilled dreams, your passion
your sovereignty  and your
finest of extra ordinary soul
brother! brother! brother!
the love we have for you.
you never leave our heart
we never saw you die
for your character is odd and
strange to death.

we bow at your name
cherish at your face
sob at your memories
smile at your glory
reflect at your childhood
nod at your comradeship
wonder at your untold escapades
grin at your probable future.

"we believed he would live
for ever because of the love we
had for him"
heartless dictators denied him
the promised land
he was a candle of hope
to the youth in our nation
fellows our brother is immortal!
Nyakisa Beth
Written by
Nyakisa Beth  20/M/uganda
(20/M/uganda)   
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