Home where I belong

No matter how far you are away from home
No matter how cold you are and need to be warm
No matter how thirsty you are for the strange throne
No matter how rich you are to buy the strange throne
You will always come back home

Home is pictures of memories on the wall.
Home is sleeping in my own bed.
Home is waking up to the smell of mom's cooking.
Home is coming home to my mom's bakings.
Home is sharing the holidays with family.
Home is playing the piano in the living room.
Home is where I belong, I will always come back home.

Home is where I feel safe to say my opinion
Home is the absence of judgement and resentments
Home is breakfast, lunch and super
Home is sleeping anywhere around the house
Home is constant meetings of renovating the house
Home is a combination of tough love and soft love
Home is bad times, worst times, good times and best times
Home is where I belong all the time of my life
Home is having dreams, supported visions and guidance
Home is sharing the innermost feeling of your heart without judgement
Home is interlocking hands and intertwining ideas
Home is the rhythm of music and the movement of dance
Home is warmth only through binding and finding one goal
Home is hugging and kissing each other and having roles
Home is reminding each other how much we love one another
Home is showing how appreciating we are of each other
Home is crying with me when I'm sad and laughing with me when I'm happy
Home is always picking the same side as long it's for the family

Home is not geographical but intellectual
Home is not just physical but emotional
Home is not the house but warmth in the house
Home is not throwing things at each other
Home is not stealing from one another
Home is not cursing one another but blessing one another
Home is not fighting for food but fighting to get food for each other
Home is not receiving but giving with all of your heart
Home is not a place where you get rich but blessing them with your riches
Home is not a place you will showcase your brightness but providing light through your kindness.
Home is not where you invest for royalties
Home is not for me but for us
Home is opening doors not closing them
Home is where I belong and at home I feel strong, because when you feel loved you feel the power invested in you rise
Home is a place of love, peace, happiness, forgiveness, kindness, hope and understanding
Home is the place I can call home because of it warmth
Home is where I belong

 ©Percy Shozi

Fear not

Fear not, for I am with you;
be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you,
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Isaiah I desire the kind of faith God wanted for you
Fear not, 365 times in my bible it appear
Fear not, for 365 days each day my fear disappear
Faith Daniel had in the middle of the fire
Faith that whatever we are going through, we'll make it through
Flesh light hit my mind, my mind renewed
Fresh sights on my eyes, your faith bestowed
Pray that you are not misplaced or manipulated
After all only the Lord we can rely on
God is here and near, we must press on
God help me to know you more
Help me to draw nearer to you
What plan you have for me
I love how you can take my pain and use it for power
You have inheritance in me
You will one day come back and claim it
Whatever you have, you always exceed your greatness
My career is under your feet
My life is under your feet
I have no fear
You assure me that you don't want me under the gutter
You don't want anybody to be under the gutter
You care for us all, from us you wanna see laughter
You don't want us to live in fear, caused by check after pay check
You don't want us to have fear to be homeless, helpless and hopeless
You have the power to transform anyone to be yours
You transformed Paul when he was an intellect
Highly respected and embraced you all the time
I want to be your slave like Paul
Your message is more important than I the messenger O' Lord
Your word is more important than my intelligence
After all, all the intelligence comes from your
After all, to you I submit my all
Unto your name I will bring my sacrifice
Because I have realised that you are the Chief Justice on this matter
Your decision is final in this constitutional court, for forwarded matters
You love me a lot and gave me an opportunity to follow you constitution
I'm just a servant who is guilty as charged, here to confess my transgrations
I'm just so grateful that, even in the middle of my trial you tell me to fear not
I'm so grateful that, even in the middle of my trial you manage to put me at ease
Saul was on his way to kill everybody who believed in Jesus but ran into him
The misery he brought to church was ridiculous and unveiled
God uses you to heal people that you use to hurt
You don't have to die to be transformed
Often you get direction from rejection
I love the Lord, and I will always worship him
Lord I love you, and I will always worship you
You don't have to perfom for me to worship you
You don't have to impress me, you don't have to do anything
Forever I will worship you Lord
My brothers and sisters
Pray your fear away
Wipe that tear away
And tear apart your old life
And start a new one with God as the head
You are the head and not the tail
God will provide a way
With lot of love I say
Love the Lord and obey
Have no fear
Wipe that tear away and
Fear not

 ©Percy Shozi

I was taught to fight

I was told to fight
I was taught to write
I was taught to write?
I need to write
I need to write about what I'm fighting for
I'm fighting for my right and that what I'm writings for
Is it right that I have to fight for my right?
Everyone is supposed to be born with his/ her rights
Let me express section 16 of our constitution as the freedom of expression
There is no substitution for section 11 as everyone has the right to life
Why do I have to fight for my right

The struggle taught me to fight
Fighting people with guns
Fighting elders with oppressive minds
As the young child
Carrying stones with anger
Where existence on it own was danger
Fearing for my life was my daily bread
Freedom of expression costed my breath
Singing songs of the struggle
Gunned down for our voices
Where life never gave us any choices
As the youth, our hands needed to interlock
As leaders of the struggle, our minds were intertwined
We never threw stones at the police
Our stones were triggered by the triggers they pulled
Only the last man standing would remain to rule
A bullet opened her chest
Her tears were shared with the rest
Blood out of the mouth
More blood out of her eyes
And out of her ears
Was this in-vain she asked as she died
Let us all be the answer to her question
Let's break the circle of poverty
Let's stay in school and better ourselves
The youth that fought for freedom fought a different enemy
We owe it to them that we live a better life they would want for themselves
We posses similarities in terms of energy and challenges
They fought against racism and freedom
We are fighting against poverty and diseases
We are tired of empty rhetoric statements from the Government
We are the youth with the intension to transform the world
We are the youth that is fighting for freedom
We are the youth of yesterday, today and tomorrow
We are the youth that seek growth in a civilized and profound way
We owe it to the youth of yesterday to be the best that we can be
We owe it to our children to be the change that we want to see in them
I was told to fight, we were told to fight and our fight will never be invain

 ©Percy Shozi

I'm in it for love

I'm in it for love I'm in it for love and I mean it
Every minute I see the gist of the notion in it
I've stripped the lean inserted in it And find the fact in between it 
It is for sentimental reasons why I say I'm in it for love 

Nobody owes me anything 
Yet I expect everything in anything that I see
Nobody owes me an explanation 
Yet I want everything to be thoroughly explained
Nobody owes me any love
'Cause the love I received on that cross was and still is sufficient 
Sometimes we ask too much from our creator 
Sometimes we expect too much from Him 
Sometimes we ask for things that won't even make us happy
Happiness is not having what you want but wanting what you have
And sometimes we are unhappy 'cause we don't realise the blessings upon us 
We sometimes think that God owes us something for putting us on planet earth
We sometimes pray and expect Him to show up the way we want Him to
We sometimes get angry at Him for having problems with our families 

We expect Him to be the answer to all our problems 
And by so doing we get angry at Him when we lose our beloved ones
Our hearts get bitter and we stop to glitter and start living in the darkness
Our anger 'cause too much danger and leave us with the absence of light
I followed Christ with no expectations and I expect no explanations from Him
Simply because He doesn't owe me any explanations from any situation that I face
Who am I to question Him for the things I can't reverse nor transform
I reject and eject to be conformed if it means I will have to divorce my happiness

I'm in it for love and I mean it every minute I see the gist of the notion in it
I followed Him because He saw the necessity for Him to dye on that cross
He did it just for me and He didn't have to do it but He did it anyway
What more can be valued more than that in this life that we live
What more can we live for and expect that is way better than that
Expecting God to bless me would be an understatement 
'Cause He blessed me with His life and there is so much love in that
This poem has so much in it about Him that it is infinite 
But this poem shall now stop for the sake of your expectations
You surely expect it to finish I know but this poem is very long 
It can not be very short 'cause there would be lots of understatements
There would be lots of text and context missing 
This poem shall live forever 'cause Christ loves us forever 
This poem is written by you and I 
This poem is meant to preach teach and sing a song 
A song that you love so much the song like 
Yes Jesus loves me for the bible tells me so
That all I need to know that He loves me no matter what
This poem will never stop and so is His love 
This poem shall break the loopholes in your heart
This poem is kind to the kinds and making sense in their minds
And this poem shall continue in your mind I'm in it for love and I mean it
Every minute I see the gist of the notion in it 
I've stripped the lean inserted in it
And find the fact in between it 
It is for sentimental reasons why I say  

 ©Percy Shozi

Hear my cry

I am that lonely voice in the desert
Like an oasis in the desert I suffer from solidarity
My sound is muted by the absence of energy in my body
Is there any possibility for anyone to hear my cry?

My parents left me alone with no food
They also never had any food to keep them alive
They wanted to stay with me and see me growing like any other child
I don' t blame them for leaving me but who can I blame?

I don't have a clear vision of this world
Everything is vivid and I have headaches caused by this hunger
The craves of this hunger have become my daily bread
For I have no bread to eat at all and this hunger, down it makes me fall
Every time I use oxygen to breath I fear that the carbon dioxide I take out will be the very last air I use and lose on this earth
I am not angry at people who have food
The fact that I don't have any food at all is not their fault
I so wish I can also move my jaws up and down like everybody else
My saliva is now so dry I don't even know if I still have taste buds
For I have been starving for so long I don't even know for how long now
My tears have transformed into water and with no water I don't really know what to drink anymore
I wish I had my parents here and near me so that I can cry and lean on their shoulders
I don't even know if I'll ever get any chance to get older and also have kids of my own
I wish I can ask anyone what to do at this stage I seek for advice of how to get through this phase because I am really confused by this pain
They say you can't choose your family but who chose for me to end up in the horn of Africa?
I gues nobody has an answer to that question neither do I
Nobody choose the environment to live in but everybody is shaped by the environment they grew in
My environment delivered only disappointments for my friends and family
If anybody can hear our lonely crying voices please save our souls

My brother is helplessly lying down and I don't have any power to pick him up
My sister is lying in the small pit, dead with no funeral box around her
I don't know what to do but I know somebody can assist us somehow
If I have no meals at all surely somebody can skip one meal and contribute to us to keep us alive
Nobody is under duress to do support us, it is just a matter of choice
I saw the major neccessity to quickly try and raise my voice
I don't want to give anybody the load of our burden
The fact that this situation we are facing is injust doesn't make it everybody else's problem
I am just trying to raise my lonely voice it is up to you what you choose to do
I am so cold and lonely, I no longer have friends they are all silenced by death
I am a refugee in my own country
I don't even know if I will ever live longer where I belong
I am in the horn of Africa and my heart is torn apart
My heart is poked by this horn I am in
This horn is so sharpened it leaves no one in my family alive
Its pokes us like a spear and I fear no one will ever hear our voices
I fear that I will be like a falling tree in the middle of the forest
Nobody will ever know I ever existed I am like the hole in the wall
Nobody knows who I am because I don't even know who I am
I don't even know my age because there is no one here to count
I am helplessly writing in the dark hoping that someone will hear
I am scared of what's gonna happen to me when I wake up
That is only if I ever wake up
I am not sure if I will ever see any shore of any land while I am still alive
I am scared that I might not even wake up like most of my family members

I am that lonely voice in the dessert
Like an oasis in the desert I suffer from solidarity
My sound is muted by the absence of energy in my bod
Is there any possibility for anyone to hear my cry

Hear my cry

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One of the trillion reasons why I love you

I love you because you see the greatness in me
I love you because you believe in me more than anyone else in the whole world
I love you because you prophesy and simplify the unwalked journey in my life
I love you because you allow me to be simply me and not somebody else I am not suppose to be
I love you because it is thoroughly confirmed in my heart that you are not trying to conform me but you allow me to transform you to the woman I've always desired in my life
I love you because you take time to scan inside my body like an ultrasound and find the real person that was inserted inside this body everybody sees
I love you because you see me inwardly not just outwardly
I love you because you internally bond with me and that triggers us to automatically bond externally
Nothing will hinder our love for one another no weapons formed against us that shall prosper
Like the skill of the sergeant by passing the healthy tissue you accurately assist me to heal the deepest wounds that I myself never knew they existed
I love you because you see the real manhood in me even when I cry and face my hurtful past that hinders my fate but you tirelessly provide a shoulder for me to lean and cry on
I love you because you spend time to clearly see the notion of my work and embrace the proportion of my Gods given talents
I love you simply because you have an aptitude to love me more than you love yourself
And that makes me leave anything I was too busy with just to be with you and stand by your side no matter what you need me for
I am for you not what you are for, you are my confidence and I am indeed you confidence too
I love you for the very simple things that you do to show me your astonishing love
Dynamites comes in small packages but when they explore everything around them is blown away
Simple stuff that you do for me is in equivalent to dynamites exploring that lonely standing volcano before it even decides to explore it self
You continuously bring more fire in my life and the way that you bring it is in direct proportion to the way I receive it the more you bring it the more I receive it baby and the more I recieve it is the more I can give it right back to you
You fill the fuel in the fire I feel and that helps us to burn the bushes growing in our way

Absence is to love what wind is to fire it extinguishes the small it rekindles the great
And baby when you are not around my mind just go crazy and nothing makes the world go round
Our eyes are like two teddy bears into them cradles
Like white petals spread over my carmine blood the crimson thoughts flow through my pure love
Like rainy love who is jealous of the sun coz it has its azure sky she has only the blue mood
Baby our love is like rainy love who is jealous of the moon for it has its golden stars and she has only the candle without a match
In this love of ours we will make use and do not lose every millisecond, enjoying our love every single minute holding our hands throughout the hour
As soon as we lay infont of this shaded dark tower,
I will be your chair you will be my table staying back to back we will eat together our love
I will write you as the label of Romance Letters soak into its carmine
I will design you with passion, the heart wants to feel

The very simple things that you do bring a smile on my face and motivates me not to sweat small stuff but have courage to explore dynamites and reveal, the incompletely revealed fact that I am an extrovert instead of an introvert
I love you beyond race, color and every tangible thing any human being can desire
I'm engrossed in your spirit and handcuffed in your soul by your amazing inner and outer beauty
There are more than trillion reasons why I love you and if I can try to name them all this poem will never get finnished instead it will be furnished
You furnish my soul in a variety of creative decorations
You complete and open doors for me simply by adoring me and giving me a reason to smile everyday
I love you because of your unbreaking smile that blows the fire in trillion different ways in my heart
I love you because you allow me to simply be me and that's why I love you more than I love myself, you are the part of myself
You let me chase my dreams and become my waterfall incase I get tired and cheer for me when I'm ascending the highest mountain, and that alone brings a tear in my eye and I descend it with no fear in my heart
You shut your ears and open your eyes and shut your mouth when other people judge and try to degrade me in different ways but you always stand by my side
You allow my courageous courage to fully influence and encourage you in many different ways and make you do the things you didn't always do before
Simultaneosly you passionately wait for my carried away emotions to come back and meet up with you again when I'm finally back on my senses
There are more than trillion reasons why I love you and this is just one reason even through the driest seasons I've always had a particular reason to love you in conditions absentia
I have taken time and learned to see you through God's eyes instead of my own flesh eyes that deceive me sometimes and that's when I realized it's not about where you are from but where you are going
I have microscoped the inner beauty seedily planted in the core of your heart that is currently observed and enjoyed by the rest of the world
I enjoyed the very first time I gazed at your attitude and that increased my heart's magnitude and my ultitude was revealed
Simply because I knew that your attitude would only determine our ultitude if we concur in our relationship
I have always dreamed about having a zealous person as myself
I have always dreamed of a doer who doesn't rest until something is completely and thoroughly done
I have characterized you in my dreams but never painted your skin in my sleep simple because the one who matters the most is the one who one can not touch nor see but only feel, and that's why I woke up and simple loved you because you are the completion of myself
The physical structure was indeed a magnificent bonus that I was so fortunate to encounter in the presence of my life
I will always embrace your inner and outer beauty for as long as I live
I will always love you even after God has put me to my eternal sleep
You are one in the trillion coz millions are inadequate infact too less compared to my love for you
I can't even pick one coz one will always be a lonely number
I can't say them all because their number is infinite
And this poem can only mention one of the trillion reasons why I love you

©Percy Shozi

Follow your heart

Follow your heart

Follow your heart no matter where it tells you to go
Follow your dreams no matter what they are
Face your fate coz if you don't nothing else will relate
Follow your burning passion before it's too late

A passion that gives you permission to have sleepless nights
A passion that makes more sense to you than anybody else
A passion that makes you accepted in the beloved
A passion that describes who you are and your believe system
This is a message to myself before you  can choose it to be yours too
This is a diary of my own but because you are  worthert you can own it too
I lost myself in books but found myself in words
Words clarify who I am and without them life is meaningless
I used to live to be accepted by other people and that's where I rejected my dreams
Know life is not what it seems beyond what we see there is more we can be
We can strip the the fat from the lean and do what we believe in
And also find the facts in between that is hidden within
The vision we redeem and the agony of choice we shouldn't have chose
Yours is just a mind and mine is just a voice it's all that we choose
But when we love what we do and do what we love we have nothing to lose
We love with a heart that would rise like a song in flight
On the flesh of back if it's love that we lack
Than we walk with the pain that we see
Love exchange that we spite
As we walk through indecision fading in fright
We ride the crest of intuition on the journey of this life

And by the hands of the infinite we hear the cries of the rest
Weighed down by their intelligence submitting to this test
But if we follow our heart our fate will reveal itself
People will always suggest our dreams
Only us that will be left alone with them to digest
My parents thought I would be the great doctor and they were right
Distrust and caution are the parents security but I knew I was also right
They never saw music and my writing skills as a sustainable career but I did
My friends thought I would be a great lawyer and they were right too
I loved history I got an A symbol without writing any notes
But that was a symbol that I am free to be whatever I desire to be
I never went into any fancy school but I've found myself in the University where we gathered together with the students who were from multiracial
Funny enough I was teaching them the novel they never had enough time to touch
They thought I was one of their group from fancy schools but I wasn't I just believed in myself and followed my heart
Ships may look good in the habour but that not what they are made for
For people who are free and who aim to remain so are like
A well organized and armed militia and that is their best security
My heart is completely in art and I will never unfollow my heart
And when I pray I follow my knees coz that's where the keys of my success are

At school they taught us  to think beyond the box but I always knew there was no box at all we are limiting the power invested in our minds
Human beings are smarter than machine because they created them
I believe in archiving beyond any human being's imagination
My colleague once said I have too much confidence when I said I can be the CEO for our firm and he was right so was I
Two important days in any human's life are the day that they are born
And the day they discover why there is no limit and there is no beyond the sky
For the sky is transparent it is just the reflection of the sea that we see
What we see is way more than what we can be
We ought to be the change that we want to see in others and I am the change that I want to see in you because I followed my heart
Your success is direct proportion to my success
I followed my heart because wherever I go it always there with me
I followed my heart because it will never give me the wrong direction but only the doubting of my mind
I suggest that you do the same do what's right and brings light that will take you to great height

Follow your heart

 ©Percy Shozi