Poem:God where were you?

When my only mother sunk in her own blood When the ‘beasts’ took my only lovely motherI still see the ghastly images in my eyesGod where were you? When I heard her sweet voice, shriek for your rescueWhile I watched helplessly without an option in the hiding curvature of the worldWhile I yelled your name out to save her from the ruthless ‘BEASTS’Those images will never leave me I still hear her loud screams in my ears when I go to sleepI still smell her blood that soaked the earth I still see the face of the BEAST that sucked her blood to no breathGOD WHERE WERE YOU when all this happened to me? Today the country streets are coldThe silence sweeps across the neighbourhoodsThe birds in the sky do not flyNeither do they sing as usual Nooo… the neighbourhood is filled with grief,Grief attributed to the agony of the 1994 Genocide against the “Tutsi”.Against innocent humans for their uniqueness and originalityWho got preyed on by the naïve, ruthless, dim-witted and callous ‘Monster’God I can’t help but ask “WHERE WERE YOU?” The only MONSTER that took the time to spy on every being with a long noseOn every Tutsi,How could anyone be so pitiless like this? Sincerely whyyy…!!! It’s so outrageous!How could the foe be so dark heartened?To the extent of exterminating month- old babies and pregnant mothersI can’t hold this to my heart but to ask“Where were you God?” God where were you, really? We always supposed you walked the world And came back home to Rwanda to restWhere had you gone those 100 days?Where really? When 17 years ago the selfish predators feasted on several families Lord surely WHERE HAD YOU GONE? Today Gasana would be 18 years old,But he departed the world when he was one year old He never got to see beautiful Rwanda The Land of a thousand Hills,Rather he breathed his last At the hands of ruthless HutusYes, Gasana breathed his last after being dumped in a pit latrine by the enemy.Who does that? Breathe taking!But, God where were you? The lakes and rivers where the bodies were dumped will always recallLake Victoria and River Akagera, You will always bare witnessThe dogs and fish that preyed, shall reminisceThe Rwandan hills and soils shall not forgetWhen they were soaked in its sons’ and daughters’ blood And WE will Never Lose Memory of YOU…YOU, our loved ones that faced the wrath of blood frenzied beastsYOU will always be remembered YOUR BODIES succumbed but YOUR SPIRITS NEVER didWe will live to say NEVER AGAIN, NEVER AGAIN! LORD we live not to ask where you were when this happenedBut rather to ask you to always be with usNOW and FOREVER“Cry not Rwanda, you are now safe.” rutarindwabob@yahoo.co.uk