I Am Not a Tribe I Am Human

Thunder strikes only but once Trust is like virginity it is lost only but once But how do you forgive When a human is not trusted When Rwanda is a story by itself How do you slash fellow humans? ‘’See those skeletons well arranged in shelves’’ “This is a family; those are the bones of the children” Reason is we were born of another tribe Our blood is not theirs, they are not our people So kill them all, let blood flow, slaughter Politics for blood, so sad stories to tell How do we trust our own? Called in a church for refuge only to be roasted to death “Burn the whole church” ‘’slash them all’’. We lost it humans, we lost it I remain human, I am not an African I am not black I am no white- American I am no Indian; I am blood and bones, Human Break not my bones; spill not my blood fellow human We all belong; we are one in creation and origin The soil we came from, soil we go back See we are same here, I am no Luo see Just human, head shoulder, knees and toes, like any other human. Before the white wash we were with us The white butterflies came and gave a language We defined tribalism using the white ink We lost our own link We were given stereotype-boundaries to divide us We had a happy introduction, we never anticipated any tragedy We killed our own, we orphaned and widowed Raped and maimed, Robbed of what is human in us. Refreshing, rebuilding, recharging, Reconnect, Wake up! Reconstruct the genetic make up, Human Remember always I am you, you are me and we one. No tribe, No white, No African, No black, just human I am not made up of stereotypes I am born by blood built by bones Just like you I cry and laugh, I feel, I feel pain. I am Human not a tribe