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Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

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Poem "Street Child":
- published August 31, 2009
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Other poems by Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe:

»A Prayer for Transformation«

»A Question of Beauty«

»A Sketch of Democracy«

»Amidst the Boring Brown«

»At The Golf Course ' 97«

»Crime and grime«

»Doomed Destiny«

»Dreaming In Limbo«

»Easy Crossing the Balustrade«

»Emerging Images«

»End of Time«

»Fading Hope«

»Friendship«

»From The Inside Looking In«

»Hopelessness«

»If you turn the pages...«

»In The Name Of Freedom«

»Legend Brother«

»Let it not be said then (an English sonnet)«

»Life's Order«

»Listen«

»Loneliness«

»Love, My Friends (an English sonnet)«

»More Blessings«

»Mother Africa«

»Mothers, Women, Wives«

»No more«

»Of misery and Anguish«

»Old Man«

»On Saying Goodbye«

»Once Upon A time«

»Our Golden Girl«

»Political Condoms«

»Relationships«

»Sing Our Song«

»Sweet Bondage«

»Take The Bull By The Horns«

»The 'Human Garbage'«

»The 'X' of Exile«

»The Brown Messiah«

»The Cold Day Unveils«

»The Knocking Woodpecker«

»The meaning of loneliness«

»The Poets Have Spoken«

»The Prison I'm Not In«

»The Way«

»Things I Miss In Exile«

»This Life - An Oxymoron«

»True Love«

»When in your eyes It looks«

»When the end beckons«

»Zany«

»Street Child«

by Christopher Kudyahakudadirwe

When I chose this life
I thought that the future
Was pregnant of life's niceties
With it I thought
I would smile my true smile
With it I thought
I would laugh my deep laughter
With it I thought
I would shed my real tears
With it I thought
I would see my true self
With it I thought
I would touch my true image
But alas! I was cheated.

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