{"id":7109,"date":"2013-04-12T04:41:35","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T04:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/poem-the-spirit-that-remains\/"},"modified":"2013-04-12T04:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T04:44:23","slug":"poem-the-spirit-that-remains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/poem-the-spirit-that-remains\/","title":{"rendered":"Poem:  The Spirit That Remains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{And now she\u2019s left but left with none and left with nothing<\/p>\n<p>no family, no friends<\/p>\n<p>she is crying for help but who\u2019s there to protect her}}<\/p>\n<p>{she cowers in the corner<\/p>\n<p>hiding from who she thought was a friend, a neighbor<\/p>\n<p>her heart pounds<\/p>\n<p>As bullets explode in the air<\/p>\n<p>Echoes of the shots ricochet through her mind}<\/p>\n<p>{{all of a sudden she hears noises:<\/p>\n<p>a crowd of bloodthirsty people talking at the same time<\/p>\n<p>singing, laughing as if the darkness has ended<\/p>\n<p>but for her it has just started<\/p>\n<p>she hears footsteps resonating<\/p>\n<p>she wipes her eyes so she can see straight<\/p>\n<p>suddenly two shadows collide with her eyes<\/p>\n<p>they start shouting and humiliating her<\/p>\n<p>as they raise their machetes<\/p>\n<p>fear grows into her and screams for forgiveness<\/p>\n<p>and they say<\/p>\n<p>\u201clet\u2019s leave her, she is not worth the raise of a machete\u201d}}<\/p>\n<p>{tears falling down from her eyes<\/p>\n<p>she feels worthless and steps into the open<\/p>\n<p>she sees houses burning<\/p>\n<p>people\u2019s bodies scattered everywhere<\/p>\n<p>in shock and paralyzed with fear<\/p>\n<p>she wonders what a home, once filled with beauty, grace and faith, has<\/p>\n<p>turned into<\/p>\n<p>this was 19 years ago but she continues to search for the light<\/p>\n<p>she doesn\u2019t let the past determine her value<\/p>\n<p>she lets the future reveal her dignity}<\/p>\n<p>{{Her story needs to be told and impacts us all<\/p>\n<p>But who could tell it better than she can<\/p>\n<p>her voice speaks through us<\/p>\n<p>and reminds us of the spirit that remains.}}<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2448 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/the_photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>(Nadia Umwali)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{And now she\u2019s left but left with none and left with nothing no family, no friends she is crying for help but who\u2019s there to protect her}} {she cowers in the corner hiding from who she thought was a friend, a neighbor her heart pounds As bullets explode in the air Echoes of the shots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[75],"byline":[615],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-7109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-culture","tag-homenews","byline-nadia-umwali"],"bylines":[{"id":615,"name":"Nadia Umwali","slug":"nadia-umwali","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":615,"name":"Nadia Umwali","slug":"nadia-umwali","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}