Edouard BIZIMANA

Today is your day girls of all ages
But who remember you,
Girls of Chibok rapped and raped?
Who give a damn to the plight of millions of you in Pakistan?
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How could it be otherwise,
When His handmade are not wise?
Keeping an eye on each of the artifacts,
For a kind and fatherly census,
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O Tanzanie, O tanzanie,
Ne m´oublie pas,
O Tanzanie,
Moi l´exilé, tant infligé,
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To many it is just a day
Event-less and not worth a say,
But to me, Saturday is a blessing:
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Though not like Mary the Virgin
But not far from being a holy mother
For you fed me from your breast
After Dad passed away
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Alone in my own kind
In the Sochi friendly wind
I thought nobody would mind
A lonely roving man like me,
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The Tattoo
In a twinkling of an eye,
Love, emotions, action we went through
For a while, to us the world belonged
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Un coup de foudre
Un coup de folie,
Tout m'échappe et me charge
D'un fardeau d'illusions.
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Reminiscences of innocence
Never knew it would make sense
As time takes me back
To the recollections of my young age
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Toi qui m'a vu naître,
De loin je t'imagine,
Et l'envie de te revoir me dévore
Comme le feu dans une savane sèche
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The world I roved,
Pain, love, joy, I tasted
On a journey I embarked
To places it took me,
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Honneur d'être femme
Plus qu'une femme, mais
Divinité et Humilité,
O toi être de bonté,
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Freedom
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Breached universal value,
O, freedom praised and raped
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Too late for nice flowers
And for so touching but fake love words
To praise a departed fellow,
After a lonely life in a crowded city
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I wish I could stay
This, I shouldn't say
For the choice is so hard to make
Because all comes back to the family
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Unmoved by the winter cold he stood;
Waving to every passer-by to give food
Or a lifesaving gesture after reading the paper
Which many refused to look at so as to avoid the keeper.
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