LIFE AND EVERYTHING ELSE

Some days are heavenly...perfect,

Then some stormy...almost dark,

Other days pure normal...just another day.

 

 

Today, Is one of those days

Stormy but with a  quiet to it

those little unspoken storms..

It will burst open soon but by then the day will be far spent.

 

 

And life goes on and everything else,

We see tomorrow and many futures.

I will ride through yet one of those days.

 

 

And then when everything is done,

After everything has happened...

I will do the only thing I have learnt to do...

I will follow the teachings of great men.

I will push forth, hold on and do it again.

 

 

Live through today and many tomorrows to come.

Still I rise

THE UGANDA WE ALL WANT

 

We all desire for a better Uganda. A better education system, better health care system, a better road network and better leadership and a better tomorrow. Some hunger for it more than others while others wish they would just grab the opportunity to have a more than better society.

I'd also love a better Uganda, but while we look to a government to offer us solutions to the many questions that have left us discontent, I pray that we choose to find the solutions to our dismay within us. They always say" Be the change that you want to see" Be the doctor that loves saving lives, not just an ordinary doctor. Be the lawyer that loves justice not just an ordinary lawyer. Be the activists that would lobby other freedom not just ordinary activists. We are all capable of good and maybe as a community our strength lies not in our individual struggles but in our collective effort to better each other in one way or another.

As Ugandans, one thing that brings us down is our lack of community, the Ubuntu in us needs a little redemption for us to see to the bottom of our rather disheartening reality. If we are to move to better development and to a satisfying reality, we need to remember that the hope and the future of our nation lie with our hands. In tapping into our Ubuntu, we will deliver better education systems, better health care services and better people into our society. 

The sham and obsolete nature of what our Country has been turned into should push us to desire to cause change, we do not need guns and street riots to cause a wave of change. Regardless of the fact, that we could also be able to deliver change that way. I pray in due season we can look at the power the lies in finding strength in the numbers of our community. I am the change I need to see and as a development worker I will push for a better Uganda even to the end.

If we can all risk standing for the truth, maybe then many of us will search deep into our selves and find solace in reviving our system that has for so long been subjected to utter abuse. You do not have to join the army; all you have to do is find something that makes you come alive with a cause for a better society. Plants trees, build a well, Build a school and when you are done doing it all...do it all over again with a sense of ownership that this country is ours and not for any ruling leader. I am out here, writing because I know this is my voice added for a bigger cause.