I am not complaining

I am not complaining

When you take my liberty

Try to take away-destroy my identity

Try to give me identity, new identity

You took it away, you robbed me

Discarded me, sold me wholesale

Shook my life

When you displaced me

I didn’t complain

When you sabotaged my progress

When you took over my place, took over my ways

Took over my life and imposed your ways

I didn’t complain, I didn’t complain

I didn’t complain when you tried to place me under

Placed me under

Displaced me all over

Turned me into a homeless, nationless

I didn’t complain

When my dreams aspirations and hopes got dashed

After you smashed all semblances of Eritrean nationhood

Changed my life with imposed new life of servitude

Turned my life to hollow shell of existence

Under surveillance

Drove me to tears and helplessness

I didn’t complain

In times of agony and hardship that you imposed

During wars that you ignited

When under duress and stressed

When I was hungry, famished

Needy, in need

I did not complain

When you closed the world on me

Placed me in house arrest, in my house

Instructed world to shun me and shunned me

I didn’t complain

I rise instead

I stand, stand strong

Resist, persevere, and persist to strive

Strive for success

With determination and willingness to sacrifice

With sacrifices

I stand

Inspired by hope and belief

Belief on each other to stand for the other

With a collective/united will

With one vision, uncompromised vision

I stand

I stand tall,

Cognizant, aware of you treachery

Confident that I will overcome your butchery

Confident that I will expose and foil your trickery

I stand

Stand tall,

Armed with the prayers of parents

Armed with iron will, principled stands

With a belief of victory for the masses

I stand to do my part, as part

And I rise victorious

I rise above all

In their honor and for their honor

I rise as Eritrean

Amanuel Biedemariam

Awetnayu@hotmail.com

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