Preston Mwiinga

Ine skiny yanga niija ya black,
Sisi zanga niza black.
Elo namansapato yanga naeve niya black.
But I am so proud to be born of a black skin.
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When I got you, you were that village girl who was so beautiful though naive in your ways of life.
I was ready to love you because you were my parents best choice for me.
The more time I spent with you, My love grew like a tree planted in a fertile land.
I bathed you with treated water and and put ointments on you. I clothed you with an embroidered dress written on it, ‘I stole your heart' and put sandals of fine leather on you.
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My life has become like the theater, Lusaka play house. Where you take me for Bob mkosha.
My activities are that of public interest busy watching them like you are watching a new movie on the big screen at fresh-view cinema and eating popcorn navima freezit vo dula.
On twitter I have few followers but in reality so many.
You have forgotten all those important tasks you have just to study my life.
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I am loving the best, and I am proud.
I may delay in telling you I love you,
I may delay in publicizing our love on the social media.
Your friends may think i do not better plans for you.
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Every child deserves to live,
every child deserves to be happy,
every child deserves to have education.
every child child has a right not to be harassed, raped, defiled or abused.
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The words of my mother echoed in my ears reminding me of the how cruel the world can be if you allow some women to use you.
She said to me,
'Mwana wandi Kuli Delaila! Iwe walalila kwati wa baela when she milks the Naira from you.'
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HIV and your friend Aids, whilst working together you have terrorized my saul. You have made me an outcast in the society. You have brought segregation to my life.
Those that claimed to love me have deserted me my life has become so dry like the Sahara desert.
My life is flooded with problems like the floods behind the Tsunami causing a lot of harm than good.
You have disfigured my body causing it to have a lot of potholes. My face has shrunk like I am that ablution block that has been emptied by a sewerage tanker.
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The day lelo has come,
Vaushimbe ine vasila kabili lelo nakwitila.
Namupeza mukazi wapanyumba and I call my running mate.
Day yanga yachikwati, nalemba yachizungu ija diary come on everyone celebrate with me because today is my happy day.
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He knew that rest lay somewhere up ahead,
but he could never quite reach it. The story of his life brings us face to face with a man burdened with an incredible mission.
Environmentalists talk about saving species from extinction,
but for Noah it was more than the talk.
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Each and every moment I walk in fear because I do not know who will take away my life.
It is not like I am a fugitive No! But because I am an albino,
Some do not even want to seat next to me,
Eating with me is like they are feeding on vomit,
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A virtuous woman, She is the proverbs 31 woman as described by the bible, this is seen in her actions towards her husband, respect she never loses, she always remember and does what her bible tells her to and that is to always be submissive to her husband even as he still has a task of always loving and respecting her also.
She is not a woman defined by fashion, she is that good and well cultured woman.
She is not that woman that is so lazy as a snail, She is that woman that wakes up daily early in the morning to do her household chores.
She is not that woman that walks in disgrace, she is a woman that has moved the walk and talked the walk, she has walked from grass to glory.
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I knew you at that point that my life I was not ready to love.
I talked with you like to you like the way I talked with any other person
I never saw any love in you that very moment I saw you.
I did not have any feel of love the moments we interacted as friends
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Cholera you come to our society like that old troublesome boy in primary school.
You mock us, you tease us like those stupid and useless bullies in a boarding school.
The problem with you is that you are never, you never like seeing people living happy together.
you have gone ahead by separating us from our traditions and customs of greeting by hand because of your jealous nature, You have changed all of us into Rasta men and women as we are all seeing greeting with knocks.
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You wake up thinking you can treat God as your cousin
You think you can play tribal games with him.
You treat his temple so careless and has no respect for his word
God is not your cousin but he is God.
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I present your daughter in law to you my parents.
I come to seek your blessings my parents.
When I receive them then I will surely be comfortable that i am very safe.
But when you fail to accept her, I will have a heartache but if she does not meet your expectations, I will understand your reasons because I know that you want the best for me.
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It is like a dream but the reality is that you are going.
The diamond ring on your finger has confessed that to me.
Should I file an injuction restraining you from getting married to him.
If my application is thrown out of the Romantic court, nizaifikiza. Naku Supreme court tifika ngati ma judge baku Romantic court bali corrupt.
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Two are better than one because they have a good return of their labor.
One eye on its not effective but with the help of the other, things move.
One hand can not lift a basin but two hands can.
Selfishness does not lead to success as only one brain will think after all even a vicious woman on her own can not fall pregnant.
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The world awaits his story
The world must hear his story.
Born from a peasant,
Brought up by a peasant,
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This is a story of a beautiful woman,
not written in story books,
not acted in movies,
not just a story told
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Her voice is silenced, her dreams shattered,
Her future stolen, her spirit battered.
They see her as a commodity, a means to an end,
But she's more than that, she's a human being, a friend.
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