I M A S U R V I V O R

I M S U R V I V O R

I M S U R V I V O R

I was there when everything began

I was there when the social tension

Exploded into social revaluation

When the oppressed became oppressor

Family lost their loved ones

Fathers and mothers forsaking

Their own children to death to save the rest.

Not forgotten hatred between brothers and sisters.

When trusted neighborhood turn against you

husbands couldn't careless to save their own

Only because of their racial and ethnical classification

What a shame! I was so young and innocent

But what I saw?

I saw a river that once was my well, turned into Blood River

A road once was my way to school turned into military station

Ma backyard become graveyard

A place I once called playground turn into battlefield

A place that was my refuge, my sanctuary become

A place of torture, slaughter, a butchery.

A man with torn and broken heart become powerless,

A fatherless so hopeless with grief and despair that drove him to suicide.

A brave and proud one fighting like a soldier, yet dying as a child.

Not mentioning mother sacrifice their own life to save a child

Mourning day and night full of envy and agony

Exposed to death and horror everyday

Then I heard silence of death for a moment.

Yet thunders and bullets was just as if it had hailed

My homeland that once flowed with milk and honey

Become a home of sadness full of hollow and sorrow

I raced up on the high mountain in search of shelter

To look back down from a view! I saw storm clouds

Gathering with blowing mighty wind in the sky

The beautiful sunset was no more only darkness

As I gazed at it falling down on my fathers land

There was weeping, gnashing of teeth, torture and much affliction.

My soul was troubled to see

My homeland vanish away

My heart breeding inside out for

There was no way back home

I smelled death was in its way

My heart pounding like a chook

Who's just missed by an Eagle

So I ran never to turn back.

I'M A S U R V I V O R