THE LAST DANCE

 

 

TIME IS OVER, PUT YOUR PENS DOWN. This one is the scariest sentence to hear when you are in an examination hall and you still have like ten unanswered questions while you see that each one of them has fifteen marks!! People love to brag by saying that there is two days where you can do absolutely nothing. They   say that one is called yesterday while another one is called tomorrow but trust me my dear, you can’t do anything when a scary supervisor says that sentence above.

As I was alone thinking and doing my good for nothing analysis about time and nature, a song popped in my mind and I remember one line which goes like” you get no second chances this ticket is good one way” and other which goes like “watch ahead the time march on and see the caravan of life go by”. By listening to it, I just realized two things: Our time here is limited and if this was not the case then we could have been immortals. The second is this: You can accurately know the amount of money you have but you never know how much time you have. We are likely to spend our precious time doing things which are somehow useless and pointless. We like to waste our time worrying and stressing ourselves but hardly do we think about that though we sleep every day with hope of seeing another day, it won’t be like that forever. One day we will sleep and never wake up again. Our time here will be over and we will be gone for good. All that will matter will not be how much money we had (though I see no problem in having those sweet and precious papers), fancy clothes we had or every other material stuff. All that will matter will be how much we loved with all our hearts, how well we lived our life without harming anyone and how we served others with kindness. All that will matter as you will be having your last dance with time will be the hearts you touched.

A short trip to mi fa sol land

 

Have you ever listened to a song and suddenly hundreds of memories pop in your mind all at once? Have you ever listened to a classical piece for instance and then you start to imagine things that have not even happened? Do you need lullabies to sleep or some calm music in order to concentrate or to study? Have you ever put on earphones and increased the volume of the song so that your anger or sadness go away? If yes, welcome to mi fa sol land, I’m going to show you around.

What I know about music is that it talks! It does talk to anyone who has time to listen. That combination and arrangement of notes always deliver a message which is only interpreted by the heart of a listener. It has no limit or boundaries; it only depends on your heart. Some pieces which convey sorrow can be interpreted as romantic ones, some which carry chaos can be interpreted as fantasy.

Music is a time machine. It can make you travel to the past and it can take you to places that exist only in your imagination. Music is the only thing that has power of awakening love, trust me!

Music is the language of God through which He communicates with all creatures. It is indeed a portal to another version of reality, a bridge which links all souls to their Maker.

Music is a secret keeper and a memory bank. One song can store thousands thoughts and emotions so as to make you feel a moment twice whenever you listen to it. It is courage booster, best friend, great company and a gift of God indeed. To all music lovers,  especially classical and old school music,i dedicate this to you.

 

When muse talks

 

Through music and poetry, nature entertains us. This one is a poems collection: two English ones and one in Ikinyarwanda. At the end of each poem, I recommend one or two songs to listen when reading. I hope you enjoy it.

 

Wind sing for me

 

Wind sing for me

Sing for me and let your voice silence this roaring voice of the muse inside me.

Sing for me slowly for I want to dream again.

Sing for me and calm down my fears for I want to fly.

Sing for me and awake this love

Sing and give me a reason to live

Sing for heaven’s sake sing

Hit me with do re mi fa and the lost sol of my heart

Teach my heart to sing

Give my soul wings and order it to fly

Sing for heaven’s sake sing.

(Listen to mariage d’amour by Richard Clayderman)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

When the muse talks

 

Bring me grandfather snail and I’ll tell you something

I’ll tell you something as old as time

I’ll tell you what your ancestors could have told you

I’ll quench that thirst of curiosity inside you

 

Hear me out for I live in you

Listen carefully for you are my better shelter

I am the YOU who turned you into you .

No matter how faster you run, you cannot outrun me.

 

 

I’m that force which brings life to the lifeless

It is me who make you irresistible

It is me who turn your thoughts into a sea

It is me who flows in your blood and through the ink hearts are captured.

 

It is me who make you communicate with the stars

It is me who make you listen to the voice of the rivers

It is me who make you talk to the trees and the wind

And finally, it is me who turned you into the voice of the Dawn.

(Listen to Canon in D by Pachelbel )

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maama  ga ndare

 

Ubu se ko ndora nanjye bindamukiye ndagira nte!?

Ko ndarikiye umurya w’inanga ucurangirwa I Kamutima kandi nsanzwe ndi intaramirwa!

Ko ndarikiye kwiranguza igitonyanga cyay’iwabo kandi n’iwanjye avuna imitoozo!?

Ko zacyurwaga zivumera nkazumvira aho nkinje none nkaba ndora nsindagira nzisanga iyo zishokera!?

Nimumpanurize menye ibibaye ga waya mutanyumva nyaga ndarwaye!

Ese aho nanjye sinagenderewe simbimenye?

Nawe se…ko mbona icana nkayitegeza ikantwika,

Ko mbona nyivugiriza impundu kandi ikwiye induru?

Nyabuneka nkorashyano-kabuzamahwemo mbisa nihitire ntaho mpuriye nawe!

Dore umwe umuvana ku Rwesero ukamuraza ku Munini

Dore undi umuvana Bwanamukali ukamugeza Bwanacyambwe ngo ngaho nataharara ntahumeka

None nanjye koko ntungirira n’impuhwe!?

Have se cyo sigaho winyereka uruhanga rwe rubengerana nk’urwa wa mugabo w’ I Nazareti!

Gezaho se winyibutsa ijwi rye dore ko iyo avuze n’inyoni zirorera kuririmba!

Ya ndoro ye ituma n’inyana zita za nyina, …

 Ese ya nseko ye aseka amasaro akibwiriza guseseka niyo bita inseko iseretse!?

 

Mbwira se kandi dore ni wowe wanyiteje

Niba utambwiye nanjye ntungaruke impande

Ugende uzagarukane andi mayeri wenda

Ariko igendere rwiza ngucitse irya none.

(Umva Moonlight sonata ya Beethoven cyangwa Conquest of Paradise ya Angelis ariko yacuranzwe na Andre Rieu)

It is all about your TAIL!

 

I wish I could write and share each single thought I have in my mind but who wants a cocktail!? Wait, did I just say a cocktail? 

The cock has a tail!? Wow. The cock has a TAIL and I’m just going to talk about this TAIL that a cock has! I, like everyone else have noticed that everyone wants a ready-made stuff. They be like “I want food on my plate but don’t dare send me in the kitchen!” or” I just want a happy relationship but do not dare tell me to work for it”. It looks like most people long for a certain magician with a magic wand who will come and do Abracadabra then BOOM, everything is there. 

This does not necessarily mean that there are not those responsible individuals who are willing to do all they can so as to get what they want. For them, their sweat and blood are what make them win. They invest in their TAILs!!  In either case, it always ends in tears or it has to end in tears be it tears of joy or tears of failure. Let’s focus back on the TAIL. As far as I can see, most people (including me) fail because their TAILs have problems. They say that everything we want is at the other side of fear and you know that fear has two meaning; Forgetting Everything and Running or else Facing Everything and Rising. In either case, it all depends on the size of your TAIL.  You should have a workout routine in order to have a healthy TAIL! The first muscle of the TAIL is Time. You won’t get anything in life if you are not willing to give it time. Rome was not built in a day or three! A child is not raised in a week or two! Give time its time if you want to achieve something worth having, something that will last longer.

The second muscle is Attention. Someone said that if you pay close attention, everything can be your teacher! Go out and examine everything attentively and you will be surprised with life lessons that you will get. It was that one morning when I woke up and stood before an avocado tree which is in our garden doing nothing at all. I decided to look carefully at the tree to see if I can get something (hey avocado lovers) but instead my eyes were caught by the fallen dry leaves. To cut it short, my lesson that day was this: Love and enjoy your life while you can because one day, like those fallen dry leaves, you’ll be unable to do so. Wisdom is born out of paying attention. I sometimes think that an airplane was invented by a person who attentively observed how a bird flies! Relationships are strengthened by paying attention to each other’s needs and responding accordingly!

Let’s see the third muscle in a tail then. Integrity. I sometimes fail to differentiate integrity and dedication but integrity is defined as a quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, doing what is right and sticking to moral principles in every circumstance. You cannot fail in your life if you are a person of integrity.

The last which I even call the strongest is loyalty. Dear reader, with all words that I have in me, I can’t find a suitable word to describe loyalty. It is incomparable, blessed is the one who finds loyal friends, loyal partner but he who is loyal is even more blessed. It is hard to find loyalty in people nowadays but if you can’t find loyal people, be a loyal person instead   and you will live a happy and successful life. I wish you to cry only tears of joy at the end. Ciao.