REMEMBER US THIS WAY (a poem by Emmiasky Ojex)

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I look back on the memories we’ve had sometimes ago
 When life was free for every one of us, both young and old
 When hiding in dilapidated buildings wasn’t a survival technique
 And death was from nature, not a man-made epidemic
  
 When our young ones were free to go to school, grow up and become men who’ll rule
 And the dead sons of our land weren’t having their cadavers along the road-path
 When our daughters were whole to be married
 And not hampered like now as they have to be carried
  
 I’ll look back on the time happiness was never far from our sides
 And joy wasn’t gotten from seeing our enemies die
 I’ll look back on the building up front
 With so many moments had therein, good and bad, all that we hold fond
  
 I’ll remember that fahir was in us too
 But now, as soon as the day brings itself new
 I’ll see that the brother I’ve had my whole life is gone
 To his end of time at the mercy of a sniper’s shot
  
 I’ll go to the death-counter, and see another sun’s been decimated
 And another light has just been put off
 All for what?
 The land,
 Power,
 Money,
 Or religion?
  
 Another 12-Year’ld has just been laid to rest
 With his mother wailings as the day before yesterday, he laid on her chest,
 Promised her “I will grow up, become a feared militant and put the wars to an end”
 But, he has just been pushed off of earth
  
 We had holidays
 Now only morning days
 Yet as the dust fills our faces
 We’ll hold on to our faith
  
 For someday, we shall all together, say
 “It was all yesterday”
 So for this, I’ll always remember us this way!