Love: how I see it

By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media

15-11-2011

“You can shed tears that she is gone, 
or you can smile because she has lived.
You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,
or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.
Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,
or you can be full of the love you shared.
You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday, 
or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.
You can remember her only that she is gone,
or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.
You can cry and close your mind, 
be empty and turn your back.
Or you can do what she'd want:
smile, open your eyes, love and go on.”  David Harkins

 

I love the above poem by David. Love is hard to define but easy to sense. You know the sensual meaning of it yeah?

The love that Jamaicans have for Ethiopia is a kind of love. That you can understand. The recent attacks on Ethiopian women by their lovers and husbands are love too? But what do the theorists say about love and what is the opinion of me, T, Staffer of De Birhan Media? Haaaaaaa lol.

Accoridng to Data Guru Some theories of Love: We develop styles of love that are based on expectancies developed from childhood experiences with caregivers: Secure; Anxious/ambivalent; andAvoidant (Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, & Wall, 1978; Hazan & Shaver, 1987; Shaver, Hazan and Bradshaw,1988). It says love has four major tasks 1) to attract a mate; 2) to retain the mate; 3) to reproduce; and 4) parental investment (Buss, 1988; Swenson, 1972).

It divides primary love styles as such: Eros - Love at first sight, based on physical attributes and is mostly physical arousal; Storge - loving affection that develops over time, is primarily affection and commitment; Ludos - a rover and collector of loves, very pluralistic. I have fallen prey to the first type of love. I was engrossed by the body shapes, facial structures, hair and smile of many girls, ladies and women. I have fallen prone to the second one too; I can say I almost loved most of the good ladies I happened to stay long with alike. Ludos is unclear this time.

Secondary love styles: Mania - intense preoccupation with the loved one, intensely jealous and possessive, in need of constant reassurance of partner's love. Projects desired qualities on partner. Pragma - looking for a compatible partner; Agape - Selfless, caring without self interest. (Lee, 1977; Hendrick & Hendrick, 1986). From the secondary styles, I would say I have the last two. I have been looking for a compatible one and caring without self interest too.

 I also have passionate love. Passionate love is an intense state of longing for union with another. It has three components, cognitive, emotional and behavioural. 1) cognitive - intrusive preoccupation with the person, idealization of that person, and desire to know the person; 2) Emotional - Attraction/Sexual attraction, positive and negative feelings, longing for reciprocity, desire for union, physiological arousal; and 3) Behavioral - Actions to determine the other's feelings, studying the person, service to the person, maintaining physical closeness. 

I am compassionate too. I love humanity. I care and cry for the helpless, although I am one of helpless too. Companionate love is the affection that we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined. (Hatfield; Berscheid and Walster, 1974).

According to Sternberg (1988), the experience of love is a function of levels of intimacy, commitment and passion (Sternberg, 1988). 

Which kind of love do we mostly have? What kind of love do I have?

Let us take a break. Listen to the music below and give flavour to your reading. A very cool, lovely Ethiopian song by a beautiful Ethiopian for a beautiful girl in Bethlehem,Ethiopia. Bettyyyyyyyy

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Liking is obviously within all of us. That was what the studies found out too. Liking is a normal incidence within all of us. Human beings like two things per a day at least. Infatuated love is one that is passionate this usually comes between lovers that are also sexually partners. Infatuation is the extreme type of love. Empty love is one that is more of commitment based. While fatuous love is both passionate and commitment based. Consummate love on the other hand is intimate, committed, and passionate. Love to ones country, love to a writer that you do not know, or love to a book is consummate love.

Very ambiguous to define

Love is an ambiguous word to define and comprehend. It is easy to be caught. Those of us who have gone through sight love, first love and so on or even had experienced betrayal by our partners, it may even sound abstract. When you find  a girl that you loved most and wanted to be with forever, loving and getting married to another man, what do you say about love? How about when you fall in love with a woman that doesn’t at all sense that you love her but takes you as her best friend or brother? What if she was older than you were and incompatible in every aspect with you but faultless she is and you are afraid as hell to tell her that you are her best frosty chocolate that she can sip? We don't know why we fall for certain people and we can't choose when we fall in love but we can decide how deep and hard we fall for them. All are ambiguously vague questions and facts. When you have a crush or really like someone, you only like them when they seem perfect and flawless. While love is when you're aware of their imperfections and flaws yet you still love them in spite of them. It is true that the ugliest person can become beautiful when they allow themselves to be open to Love, Hope and Faith and that is the kind of woman I am in ... with, I would say.

And they say love is blind and then some confuse you with their love and lust.

Yvonne M. Glasgow (Ph.D.) a professor of Holistic life and Philosophy says  no one ever said love would be simple and the reason for the lack of this statement is the truth that finding love is almost as difficult as finding the Holy Grail and just because you may think that you love someone does not mean that you do because it should be a proven fact that 99.9% of people don't even have one clue of what love really is.

Hell yea she is right. Love sucks. A very vague thing. If I think of this beautiful and worthy woman of zero fault, and at times feel like hmmm by repressing my feelings and controlling my want for more … what is love? Take it in whatever sense - the word love should be changed.

RIP Amy Winehouse says it better below,

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
-- John Fletcher (1576-1625)
-- Monsieur Thomas, Act iii, Sc. 1

Ethiopian teacher burns himself in defiance

Yenesew Gebre (photo), the teacher who burnt himself in  the southern Ethiopian town of Waka, southern Ethiopia. He is the first person in Ethiopia who used self-immolation as a Political Tool. It was reported that his self-immolation came after he said was subjected to constant abuse and injustice by Meles Zenawi’s regime. Bouazizi, a young Tunisian graduate who set himself on fire triggered the Tunisian revolution.
Yenesew was originally from Jimma who moved to Waka finding teaching job in the local school. He was known for his writing and reading skills. 

RIP Yenesew!!

Read details here : http://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/2011/11/15/ethiopian-man-burns-himself-to-death-in-protest/

Back from France and London

Reflection on the News items of the past week

By T, Blogger of De Birhan Media

14/11/2011

If you live in Europe, you will mainly enjoy two things. Growing taller and taller as you are showered by the nonstopingly irritating rain everyday and ability to freely travel through the continent. The distance from the capital cities of these cities is of hourly. For eg. If you are in Belgium, you can reach in Holland, Switzerland or France in couple of hours. Anyway, a friend of mine who just gotten his full European driving licence invited me to a tour over France and England. ‘Why not I said’ as I was not working for three days plus the weekend =  5 days. We drove through Paris. Paris a beautiful city but did not do much there as it was a bit hard for us to communicate since everyone was speaking French as a modus of comm. We drove further and went to London, the Capital of the United Kingdom. What a fabulous city. When I was at home, I travelled often to various places and continents including this one. But this time it looked fabulous as I was mainly in these two cities as a tourist. This is my last European tour before I move beyond the Atlantic.

Habesha (Ethiopian-Eriterian) bars (clubs) and recreational centres

Of all the historical places and spots that I visited, I went to Habesha bars, restaurants, and recreational places. We dined at Menelik, Red Sea and Marathon restaurants. I especially thanked the man at Menelik for his fabulous jobs. At Menelik we ate injera with Fim Tibs, a very very delicious one with fitfit. Then I went downstairs to the same club to dance with the Ethiopian tunes played by a young London based Ethiopian artist.

The next day, I wanted to visit a rectational place that Ethiopians go often. So we found one. This one has three compartments the first one is a cafeteria, the second for those who play snooker, I found few youngsters playing it. The third one is for chewing 

Khat ,a stimulant plant banned in many places. I came to learn from friends that this plant is legal in the UK. There I sat with the men who were chewing khat, smoking cigarettes and shisha. Normally, I do not do any of them but for the sake of memesasel, I did try some lol. First out, like my other experiences in European countries, when you bump in to any of their place as a stranger what they first do is find out your stand in home politics. Same was here, although not direct, they raised various political issues that could ignite our participation so that they judge our stand and be with us or oppose us. It is so unbelievable, how home politics decisively affects the Diaspora. They could not get anything from me except nods. The walls of the room are filled with hand written quotations that were written by those who get high from the plant and leave their scripture.

 one of the pics I took in the rec. center 

I learnt few things from my stay in this place. Most of these people in room looked so poor and addicts. Their way of life is chewing, talking and working few hours. That is all. The Ethiopian youth is being criticised for being so. How different are these men in London? Only a difference of location. They live the same life of hopelessness engulfed in khat chewing as those of our counterparts in Addis.  

I also came to see that there is a lot of potential being wasted and unused by Ethiopian politicians in the Diaspora. Khat houses are places of public sphere where issues of national interest, politics are discussed. This is where the opinions of some are set. I saw some guy in the middle of these people who was labelled to be a ‘spineless opposition supporter’, although the guy seemed to be honest and anti-Meles’ regime/dictatorship, his points of argument were weak. In outside khat house life as well, the man, I presumed is a bit of a bullied fool and such a person cannot work positively for the establishment of a democratic Ethiopia.

Let me finish this part, by quoting one of their arguments. This man starts arguing that Alamoudi and the Meles regime have been robbing Ethiopia’s natural resources mainly gold and leaving Ethiopians poor. “Alamoudi wasn’t a billionaire and even uknonw before the coming of the incumbents,” He argues. One of the listener’s aggreingly opposes his point saying, “Well you are right they stole our wealth and built their economic empire but it is not through the sale of our Gold that this man especially amassed his billions”. We all said “so how then?”. He replied “it is through the sale of our honey”. We all laughed out loud. But he argued strongly.

In this trip, as well I met a childhood friend of mine who was deported to Eritrea during the last Ethio-Eriterian war, because his parents were Eritreans although he was born in Ethiopia. He was alive and kicking

Finally yet importantly, I leant the charge of six journalists with terrorism including four exiled writers like me who I know some two personally. It really baffled me. I know that this guys did or cannot do anything that can terrorise anyone. They have always been writers and journalists. It is becoming evident that anyone who writes, journalises freely even in exile these days is a terrorist. This trend of naming anybody that is critical of the government, as a terrorist is a very bad and dangerous culture that has never been in our history. Ethiopians and Ethiopia had never used terrorism as a means of winning their opponents. In our history of war and struggle for thousands of years, we have never been offensive. As a non-offensive nation, Ethiopia cannot produce this generation of politicians and journalists who turn out to be terrorist within a flick of a second. What scares me most about this new mantra of opponent/critic extermination of the Meles Zenawi regime is not just the charge of these few journalists but the trend and the culture that we are developing.I am clear enough!!!

Victory to all those who fight for democracy and peace!!!

Downfall to dictators!!!

Ethiopia charges six journalists with terrorism

New York, November 11, 2011-A judge in Ethiopia's federal high court charged six journalists with terrorism on Thursday under the country's antiterrorism law, bringing the number of journalists charged under the statute since June to 10, CPJ research found.

Twenty-four people, including imprisoned dissident blogger Eskinder Nega and five other journalists critical of the government who work online and in exile, were charged, according to the court charge sheet obtained by CPJ. Nega, a contributor to U.S.-based Ethiopian diaspora news websites; editors Mesfin Negash and Abiye Teklemariam of the U.S.-based Addis Neger Online; Abebe Gellaw of the U.S.-based Addis Voice;Abebe Belew of the U.S.-based radio station Addis Dimts; and Fasil Yenealem of Netherlands-based station ESATwere charged with providing support toGinbot 7, a banned opposition movement that the government formally designated a terrorist entity under the sweeping 2009 antiterrorism lawthis year, the charge sheet said. The law criminalizes any reporting that authorities deem "encourage" or "provide moral support" to groups the government has labeled "terrorists." The five journalists in exile were charged in absentia.

In an interview with Agence France-Presse, government spokesman Shimelis Kemal accused the journalists of "abetting, aiding, and supporting a terrorist group." Kemal accused Ethiopia's neighbor, Eritrea, of involvement in a vague plot against the country. "They have received from the Eritrean government weapons and explosives for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities in Ethiopia," Kemal said.

"Ethiopia's terrorism charges against journalists critical of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's government are becoming vague and ludicrous," said CPJ East Africa Consultant Tom Rhodes. "The authorities have failed to provide any hard evidence and should drop these charges immediately."

Two of the journalists, Nega and Yenealem, were imprisoned on anti-state charges for coverage critical of the government's brutal repression of pro-democracy protests followingEthiopia's disputed 2005 election, according to CPJ research. Nega has been imprisoned since September 14 in Maekelawi Federal Detention Center, where torture is commonly used, according to a Human Rights Watch report. One of the 24 arrested, opposition leader Natnael Mekonnen, told the court he had been abused repeatedly in custody, news reports said.

Editors Negash and Teklemariam shut down their newspaper in late 2009, following a series of arrests and the threat of imminent arrest under the antiterrorism law over their in-depth coverage of political affairs, CPJ research showed. Gellaw fled the country in 1998, and in 1999, Belew started a radio program based in Washington, D.C. that broadcast commentaries critical of the government.

Ethiopia's repression over the last decade drove the highest number of journalists into exile in the world, according to a CPJ study. Ethiopia trails only Eritrea as Africa's leading jailer of journalists. 

Briefing New African on the Horn of Africa

By De Birhan Media 

08-10-2011

New African is an authoritative African Magazine published by IC publications. IC publications has been publishing magazines, newsletters, country supplements, industry reports, and market intelligence on Africa and the Middle East since 1966.

The print copy of the New African November 2011 issue has interviews with the Eritrean President, Isayas Afeworki (Page 28 to 32) and Dr. Eleni Gebremedhin CEO of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange. I will quote some relevantly interesting statements from the interviews.

First on Isayas’ Interview:

The Magazine begins by reporting Eritrea’s ballistic economic growth,

 Eritrea is very much command economy where things are planned with military precision . And in contrast to its neighbours, its agricultural model has led to self sufficiency, and its economy is set to grow quite rapidly with the added bonus new mining ventures which should make Eritrea the fastest developing economy in the world this year,with a growth rate of 17%.

On aid he said,

Aid was fashionable at one point in time, but with but with experience we see that in fact, aid has been disabling for Africa.

He also recalls that the World Bank told him that they would write the country programme for him in 1994, when his nation was a nascent independent nation. He said after a controversial debate with the reps of WB, he decided that they have to write their own country programme themselves.

Explaining on how his nation was able to survive the current regional drought, he said,

It is because of dams, small, medium, big dams. It is the result of spate irrigation, where you divert streams of water flowing from one area to another.

He blames the governments of the Horn for the recent food problems in the Horn and advises self-reliance as the best solution out of it.

I think it is irresponsible governments, corrupt governments, who misuse external aid and support and don’t have even an idea on how to tackle this problem on their own.

Asked about the model of growth he would endorse, either American or Chinese; he opted neither and said that the basics such as the economy, development, distribution and citizenship have to be decided first. In an interview, which Isayas faced few challenging questions, one final statement he made was about liberation movements and corruption.

People talk about liberation movements but my question is, if you have been a liberation fighter, why do you pickpocket, why do you take money from the population? You don’t have a carte blanche to rob the population of their resources simply because you fought for liberation.

With Dr. Eleni,(Page 34)

In an advertorial type of Wh interview, Dr. Eleni of the ECX speaks of the rationale, challenges, services of ECX and her roles. The following is an interesting quote that she said when asked about the challenges they faced at ECX once they were founded.

… I will give you an example; we had designed our system around the whole electronic warehouse system. So when a commodity arrives at our warehouses, one of the first things a clerk asks for is the license plate number of the vehicle so we can go and sample that vehicle and take the commodity off the truck. In one instance, the person who brought in a consignment of coffee and told our clerk that there was no license plate number,without which the electronic system cannot proceed. The clerk asked, “Why don’t you have a license plate number?” The answer: “because I brought it on a donkey”. So here, we are trying to implement a global IT trading system and we are right back down to earth with a donkey. So, this quite clearly illustrates some of the challenges we faced.  

New African also has a special feature on Frantz Fanon entitled “What Frantz Fanon meant to African liberation” and a piece on aid that mentions Ethiopia in few lines by Akua Djanie. If you buy the magazine €4.50 you will also read about this important Ugandan lady; Elizabeth Bagaya of Toro.

South Sudan President's daughter marries an Ethiopian man

*Editor of the Destiny Daily arrested 

South Sudan President Salva Kiir. FILE | AFRICA REVIEW |

By MACHEL AMOS in JubaPosted Monday, November 7  2011 at  14:38

South Sudan journalists warned against repression Monday after the state shut down an English daily newspaper and arrested its editor.

The Destiny daily, an English version of Al-Masier Arabic daily, was shut down for publishing an article critical of the wedding of President Salva Kiir’s daughter to an Ethiopian man.

''This wedding is a demonstration that foreigners have not only monopolised our market, economy and robbed our integrity after penetrating it, but it is also a demonstration that they have taken over our national pride,” a section of the article read.

“What else is left if an alien could penetrate all the hedges and invade the house of our President, elope and impregnate his daughter?” the article continued.

The article has been viewed as an infringement on the personality and privacy of the First Family.

The newspaper was served with an order to stop publication indefinitely and the security personnel arrested the editor.

“The constitution gives the media people the right of freedom of expression. But, like anywhere else, that freedom has limit(s). If you abuse it, then, like any other citizen doing other things, you have to answer (for) the violation,” said deputy Information minister Atem Yaak Atem.

“It not just that you are free to do anything you like. You have to respect the right of others,” Mr Atem said.

In prison

Mr Atem could not tell the whereabouts of the arrested editor, Mr Ngor Arol Garang, who reports for Sudan Tribune website.

The media fraternity is worried that the move could limit public debate on critical matters.

“Such incidents really put people’s hopes down for if you look at the way media houses report, they will be insincere because they will be thinking that if you write anything against the government or against any individual, you will be arrested,” the secretary general of South Sudan Union of Journalists (SSUJ), Mr Peter Bongiri said.

“It is not about attack on privacy. It is about someone giving his opinion on a matter. Everybody has got the right to say his opinion against what step you have taken,” Mr Bongiri said.

The newspaper reportedly published an apology to the First Family.

The whereabouts of the arrested journalist remained unclear, four days since he was taken into confinement, contrary to the constitution.

“A person arrested by the police as part of an investigation, may be held in detention, for a period not exceeding 24 hours and if not, released on bond to be produced in court. The court has authority to either remand the accused in prison or to release him or her on bail,” reads Article 19(4) of the constitution.

Happy Belated B.Day

Birtukan Mideksa passes message via Amnesty International

By T, staffer of De Birhan Media

03-10-2011

Ethiopian political figure, former opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa has just been featured on  Amnesty's 2011 Write for Rights Global Write-a-thonCampaign Advertsiemnt. Birtukan on the Advertisment calls everyone write letters for those who are incacrerated for their consisnce and testifies about their impacts.

The whole Message of Birtukan reads as follows : 

	Save a life. Write for Rights.
	Dear           , If you think writing letters is passé, that touching pen to paper is meaningless in the age of Facebook and Twitter, remember my story. My name is Birtukan Mideksa, and your letters set me free. I once had no hope of freedom. A single mother and former opposition party leader in Ethiopia, I was arrested in 2005 after my political party participated in protests disputing the results of the elections.  Security forces responded to the public outcry with deadly force, shooting dead 187 people and wounding 765 others.  I committed no crime. I was targeted solely for peacefully expressing my political views.  Help free other prisoners of conscience like me. Join Amnesty's 2011 Write for Rights Global Write-a-thon.There are 15 urgent cases of abuse and injustice in need of your action. The government in Ethiopia thought it could quell dissent by locking opponents away forever. I was serving a life sentence in Kaliti Prison when Amnesty International members came to my defense. When my case was featured in the 2009 Write for Rights campaign, thousands of people called for my freedom.  Your letters were my protection during the months I spent in solitary confinement. You were my voice when I had none.Your letters kept hope alive at the darkest hours of need. Thanks to Amnesty International, I regained my freedom in October 2010. I am so grateful that your letters and action worked for me. Now I urge you to keep up your good work by taking action for others. I offer my voice for Amnesty International, and I hope that you will do the same.  Write with me. Join the 2011 Write for Rights campaign today. In peace,  Birtukan Mideksa		I Am Proof  Your pen is mighty indeed. It set me free.

Africa and the Arab Spring: A New Era of Democratic Expectations : report says Springs reshaped Africa’s governance landscape

Compilation by T, Staffer of De Birhan Media

02 November 2011

A Special Report released today (November 2, 2011) by  the Africa Center for Strategic Studies' entitled "Africa and the Arab Spring: A New Era of Democratic Expectations" stated that the ousting of longtime autocratic leaders in North Africa over the course of 2011 combined with democratic breakthroughs in a half dozen Sub-Saharan African countries have reshaped the contours of Africa’s governance landscape. Underlying drivers of change, moreover, suggest that the prospects for further democratic advances in the next few years are strong.

These advances will almost certainly not be as sudden and dramatic as in Egypt, Tunisia, or even Libya — but are likely to be widespread, contingent on the starting point of each given society, the report explains. According to the report regime models on the continent, moreover, remain highly varied, ranging from hard core autocrats, to semiauthoritarians, democratizers, and a select number of democracies. Ethiopia has been categorised under the semiauthoritarians list.

The analysis of the report suggests Africa has made considerable if not linear progress toward democracy over the past 20 years. Moreover, even during recent years of seeming stasis, important structural factors, such as sharply greater access to ICTs, a growing youth bulge, a more sophisticated civil society, emerging institutional checks and balances, urbanization, and the expanded awareness of global governance norms, have positioned Africa for another democratic surge. Perhaps most powerfully, expectations in Africa for more robust democracy are rising.

Interestingly the report states that Neopatrimonial legacies have been one of the main countervailing forces of the democratisation process in Africa.

Nearly every African society has been shaped by neopatrimonial or “bigman” governance models that reinforce notions that executives not only make but are above the law. As a result, government systems revolve around the interests of the individual at the expense of the democracies and democratizers such as Senegal, Malawi, and Benin — and account for the backsliding observed there.

“The Arab Spring is thus serving as a trigger, rather than a driver, for further democratic reforms in the region,” the report concludes.

The study recommends in order to realise the anticipated changes,

civil society and other reformers will be called upon to step up and champion change in the face of vigorous pushback from vested interests, regional and international bodies will need to reinforce democratic norms, election commissions will be required to become more capable and independent, access to independent media will need to continue to grow, and Africa’s security sector will have to become more aligned with the interests of the state than with incumbent political leaders.

The report was evaluative of the extent to which these still unfolding developments will be a catalyst for further democratic change in Sub-Saharan Africa, the durability of such change, and the influence of other drivers and counterweights to democratization in the region.

You can  click  Here   and read the whole report :

Poems of the Prophesier Sheikh Hussein Jibril

By T, Staffer of De Birhan Media 

01 November 2011

The famous Ethiopian predictor/prophesier of the future Sheikh Hussein Jibril lived in Ethiopia from 1811- 1908. 

Most of his poems were predictions about the upcoming rulers of Ethiopia and socio-political situtaions of the country starting from the times of Zemene Mesfaent (Era of the Princes, of1769)  to the present regime. For one who knows Ethiopian history well, the prophetic poems hit a 100% right. The poems are colloquial in writing and double-edged in meaning so they need to be read between the lines and with a deep knwolege of the Amharic language,Ethiopian history and religions. For eg, he terms Christianity as Amhara instead of calling it Christianity and similar kinds of usages. 

Here I have selected few stanzas that I assumed relate to his prophesies of the present day Ethiopia and regime's fate.

ተፈሪ መኮንን የተያዘ እንደሆን

እንግዲህ ሐበሻ ምን ይበጀው ይሆን፣

(እህል ያልገዛ ሰው ምን ይበጀው ይሆን?)

አሥመራና ሸዋ ይሆናል እንዳይሆን

ወያኔ ተነሥቶ አሥመራ እሳት ሲሆን::

 ጋ*ና ጉራጌ የሸዋ ሙንኪር

ሌት እንቅልፍ የላቸው ቀኑን በነገር፣

ሸዋን ይይዙታል አንድ እንኳን ሳይቀር

ድንጋዩን በድንጋይ አድርገው ንብርብር፣

አጃኢቡን ሳላይ መሬት ስትሆን ብር::

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በአሥመራ ወያኔ ከመጣ ችግር

መጀመሪያ አሥመራ ትሆናለች ቀብር

አክሱም ትጠፋለች በአንድ ቀን ጀንበር

ግሼን ላሊበላ ትሆናለች ቀብር

ሁሉም ይሸፍታል ሴት እናኳን ሳይቀር::

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ስንት እጃኢብ ያያል በዱኒያ የቆየ?

እኛ ባንደርስበት የልጅ ልጅ ጉድ አየ

ጥበብ እንዳይለምድ አሻቅቦ እያየ

የነጮችን ሥራ ብልግናን ገበየ

(አባቷም ዝም አለ ፈርጇን እያየ)::

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ነገሩ እማይገባ የተወላገደ

በአሥመራ በትግሬ ሄዶ እየነደደ

እንዴት ያለ እሳት ከሸዋ ነደደ

ቢያጠፉት እምቢ አለ እየተዛመደ::

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የአሥመራ ጦርነት ታኅሣሥ ሲጀምር

ብዙ ሰው ይጠፋል ነገሩ ሳያምር

አይሰድም መስሏቸው ሸዋ ብዙ ጦር

ወዲያው ሰደዳቸው በሰማይ በምድር

ወያኔው ይሞታል አያገኝም ነስር::

ሷሊህና ቃሲም አብደላህና ዙበኗር

በወልቃይት ብቅ አሉ ትግሬ ሲበረበር

ኩታበር ገራዶ ትሆናለች ጠጠር

ጎጃም ትጠፋለች ሳትውል ሳታድር

ብዙ ሰው ይጠፋል ያውም ከባላገር::

 አሥመራ ተወግቶ ወልቃይት መርዙን ተፋ

ሽሬና መቀሌ ይሆናል የከፋ

እንቅልፍ እንዳይወስድህ እርብ ሳይጠፋ

ይመስላል ላየው ሰው ቂያማ የተደፋ

እርብ ስንቱን ጣለው ጠብቆ ወረፋ::

ጋይንት ንፋስ መውጫ ድራና ፎገራ

እርብ ላይ ሞልቶ ሲዘፍን ሲያጎራ

ነጋዴው ይጮሃል መቀሌና አሥመራ

ምን ይበጀው ይሆን ጅልጋና ፎገራ?

ሸዋ ደፈረሰ እህሊን ሳይዘራ::

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መግዛቱን ይገዛል የዮሐንስ ዘር

ወዲያው ለጥቂት ቀን ይላል ፈንጨርጨር

ተፈሪን ጥላ አርጎ ሲያሳድድ ሲቀብር

ቢያዝ ደግ ነበር አገሩን ሳይቀብር

በቀር ሸዋ አይረጋም አትጠራጠር::

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ይኸ ቻይና እሚሉት ዘራቸው ካልጠፋ

ችግር ይፈጠራል ይሆናል የከፋ

ማጥፋት ይሻል ነበር በአገር ሳይስፋፋ

ወልደን ሳንጥለው ልጃችን ሳይጠፋ

ጠብቀው ዘመኑን እስኪታይ በይፋ::

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ምን መላ ይገኛል ጦር ቢያከማቹት

አልገዛም ካለ ከወንድም ከሴት

ሸዋ ካልመከረ ይሆናል ወንፊት

እባብ መርዙን ከተፋ ይመጣል ፍጅት

ይህን እየሰማህ እንዳትገባ እሳት::

 በድርቡሽ ሲገርመኝ የመተማ እልቂት

የማይጨው ሲገርመን የአድዋ ጦርነት

መቀሌን አየሁት አረሁ በልቶት

ሸዋ በገዛ እጁ በጫረው እሳት

ስንቱ ሰው ይነዳል ውቅሮ አዲግራት::

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አሥመራና ትግሬ ስትል ሰገደይ

እባብ ከተፍ ይላል ማምጫው ሳይታይ

ሸዋ የዚያን ጊዜ ይላል ዋይ! ዋይ!

ጀርባውን ምች መታው ወደ ትግሬ ሲያይ::

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ዘመን ተለውጦ ጥቅምት ሲደርስ

በአሥመራ ከተማ ይነፍሳል ነፋስ

የዚያን ቀን ሐበሻ ይላል ፈረስረስ

ሃምሳ ቀን ይቆያል ሴት ወንዱ ሲያለቅስ

ወንፊት ጉድ እስኪወልድ እስኪሆን አራስ::