by Benard Makaa | Mar 18, 2020 | Birthday, Poems
Welcome the day that gave you birth! And may it often come to bless, The girl who graces the earth, With her surpassing loveliness, Having been named Faith, The evidence and substance, Of all, I ever did dream of. And may through all this life of yours, The...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 28, 2020 | Birthday
“Father of light and life, though Good Supreme! O teach me what is good, teach me Yourself! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit; and fill my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss!” Been...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 21, 2020 | Poems
Who will live and who will die, Who after a long life, who before his time, Who by water, who by fire, Who by hunger, and who by thirst, Who by the virus, who by the plague, Who in the night time, who in the sun shine, Who by slow decay, who by the gun, And who shall...
by Benard Makaa | Feb 4, 2020 | Poems
The Blind Men and the Elephant, A HINDU FABLE. By John Godfrey Saxe I. IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. II. The First approached...
by Benard Makaa | Jan 19, 2020 | Learning
Until 2017, I had only one official shirt. A blue shirt that I was gifted in 2008, as a token of appreciation for serving as a class prefect at Kitondo School. I used it until it was too torn to be used anywhere. It was my Sunday best. Not that I couldn’t afford new...