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Keep a child alive, save humanity
Duncan Mikae , Bungoma: Sep 14 2008
Made Popular Sep 14 2008
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Keep a child alive, save humanity

The magnitude of the HIV/AIDS crisis in Africa is so huge that many people have become desensitized about the suffering and human toll of the disease. However, the fact still remains that 25 million adults and children have died in Sub- Sahara Africa due to AIDS and another 30 million are currently living with the disease. In 2007 alone, another 2.6 million adults and children died and 2.5 million became infected with HIV.

I think no one needs to become a full time activist to make a difference and help fight the spread of HIV/AIDS in Africa. There are many effective ways through which you can become part of the solution. Here a few Ways to Get Involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa:
1. Engage your local community
2. Engage your Elected Leaders
3. Engage your Faith Community
4. Invite your friends to Take Action
5. Write an op-ed in your local newspaper
6. Host a community fundraiser
7. Donate to an HIV/AIDS organization
8. Volunteer
9. Join Online Communities

I chose to write about the killer disease so that the few who can get my message can make a difference.
This poem is the second on the topic that i submit at instablogs.

THE MONSTER.

He clears everything he finds in his path,
He callously disfigures any flesh,
That his bloody hands lay their palm on,
Without any speck of mercy,
He stops the heart from dancing,
When the white soldiers throw in,
Their antiseptic towels.

If there was a prognosis,
Which would alarm his coming,
Then more people would be prepared,
Prepared to fight the illegal war,
In rubber and grease,
But!
Many go to the battlefield unarmed!
What an awful beginning?

People think he is factitious, .
Deafening their ears not to hear,
And blinding their eyes not to eye,
For they claim it’s a means,
Cooked to deny them satisfaction,
They prefer eating the banana,
Eating it without it’s peelings,
Yet-
It’s a reality.

His spread is overwhelming,
His means of getting livelihood;
Disgusting!
He knocks on anybody’s door,
Not choosing whether..
It’s big or small,
Old or young,
Or rich or poor,
Knocks without selfishness,
But kills with selfishness.

In the buzzing club halls,
In the confusion caused by..
The cries of breaking glass,
Yet some glasses are also being broken..
In the deamlit upstairs rooms,
And this makes me to ask;
Who will pick the once shiny glass,
That now lies in fragments?

The testubes have failed,
Failed to get the immunity,
The bulletproof formulae,
That could save,
Save the hungry hyenas,
Who eat even the corpses,
Not caring the stench
For they seek satisfaction of flesh.

Were the mother’s pains in vain?
So that they by following the right path,
Why not safeguard the newborn?
Don’t die young,
Show them the path without predators,
Teach them how to swim in rubber,
So that they don’t drown in the great Zambezi,
Teach them how to say A-B-C,
So that they mature with weapons,
Ready to boost their white soldiers,
Life shall be zestful,
Yep!He shall be conquered

By:Duncan Mikae.

Let us help Africa reduce the deaths that leave many children orphaned and infected.
Keep a child alive, save humanity

Keep a child alive, save humanity

This kid is a HIV/AIDS orphan,Why can’t me and you be there for him,why can’t me and you prevent his case from repeating?

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Iam ready to keep a child alive and save humanity.What about you my brother my sister?
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Vijay
Kota, India
Good cause,Duncan,
and you’ll succeed.
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
good show Duncan.
you have kept the promise.
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thanks
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
am ready too Duncan to keep a child alive
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then you are welcome to my caravan,the journey is going to be ’not easy for us’
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Oscar
Oaxaca, Mexico
I too am ready Duncan.
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thanks for the support my brother
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
Is Vijay ready?
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he will be the one to tell us that.
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
Is Vijay ready?
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he will tell us.
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Rose Ng'ang'a
Nairobi, Kenya
Thanks a lot Duncan believe u me am so ready but how do u wana go about it?
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i said it clearly up there Rose,’i chose to write about the killer disease so that the few who can get my message can make a difference.’

we can also collectively Engage our local communities,
Invite your friends to Take Action

Write an op-ed in your local newspaper

Donate to an HIV/AIDS organization

Join Online Communities

Have i answered you dear.
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
so you are back Duncan,i wish you came to my page and contributed to a post i placed about your absense,some crazy guys there think that you are a spammer and you were banned from the community.
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
i had thought Duncan was back.who will help us bring our friend back here?
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the fight is still on,let us all brace ourselves,
he has take enough,
for the owner to ignore,
Let us all unite and educate our communities for knowledge is the best tool to fight in this fight we have.
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
good words from you Duncan
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Thank you,that is a line from one of my poems
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
Duncan and Rose,why can’t we get down to the real business of why Duncan put this post up,don’t you think it would be good if we came up with a project in line with keeping a child alive and then we wrote a proposal to any international body to seek their support?

Am sure it might work and we might have and own our own initiative towards achieving your dream ....ou dream.
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For us to do that we need to first get our own CBO or NGO with which we shall use to write the proposal so for us to go to that direction we need to think of how to start a group first. otherwise your idea is good johnstone,i don’t know what rose will say about it.
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
i have understood you,then talk to Rose about it.
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Leena
Kolkata, India
May you succed in your efforts Duncan. And yes the world needs some inspiration of this kind to wake up to the grave problem of AIDS and fight it. BTW you are such a wonderful poet!
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
leena,i also told Duncan that he is a good poet with a good heart,your comment makes us two,what really impressed me is that i requested for another poem from him after reading Arise,and guess what! he wrote this, so if you will read his other article(poem) ”let us arise....” you will agree with me.

chao
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Thank you Leena for the comment
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thanks johnstone
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Leena
Kolkata, India
Sorry for the delayed reply Johnstone. Thanks for telling me about another poem of Duncan. I will definitely go through it. I think it’s the appreciation of friends like you that makes Duncan come out with his commendable creativity.
(Global Perspectives)
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your comments mean alot to me Leena,they give me strength and happiness because i know behind all these encouraging comments is a good friend.
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
you are welcome leena
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Johnstone
Nairobi, Kenya
Duncan you have a talent in poetry,iam touched by ’EMPTINESS’
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Thank you my brother,it is people like you that bring the good out of me through your motivation,thank you very much
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wow what a good poem,iam late in here but iam also ready Duncan ,to keep a child alive
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Thomas Kanana
kenya, Kenya
iam ready to keep a child alive
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