poem

                                                               Rwanda Rwanda


Rwanda Rwanda
A country set in the center of Africa
A country home to so many

Her people lived together as one
The wealthy and tall as Tutsi
The poor and short as Hutu
At least that what they were labeled as
Strong together they lived
Happy together they played

Until in the year 1994
A year to be the year of celebration
A year to be independent
Became the year of fear
The year of disappointment
The year of death

The Hutu got hungry
So hungry for power
The Tutsi got full
So full of fear
Her people got lost
They got so lost it blinded them

next came violence
thousands of people murdered
Mostly the people of the Tutsi tribe

Women got killed
Men got killed
Even children got killed
Some fled in fear

Hutu full of energy
Ready to fight
The Tutsi murdered
Not by strangers
But by friends and neighbors
Two people the same but so different

Rwanda Rwanda
Her people had never been so divided
her children had never been so frightened
Her women had never been so scared
Her men had never been so afraid
But yet they were