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COFFIN CURFEW

She hugged her mother's leg so tightly, her little hands clung so tightly, they throng with the crowd, passing through houses burnt, Where's our house? Her little mind tried to comprehend, too scared to ask her crying mother Yesterday night was fire on the mountain, it was run! run! run! Their haven was no longer safe, the wild mindless inferno gutted the houses in their family compound, beyond recognition making them homeless. All she could remember was her father fleeing, he carry her all through, her little chubby brother strapped to his mother's back ahead, gunshot heard continuously, bullet discharged sporadically by bandit or herdsmen or whoever they are called especially enemies. They went deeper into the bushes, to look for refuge among the rocks towering the village stream. She overhead her father telling the other escapee that their houses were destroyed, everyone had a remark, curse word for their assailant, they were unforgiving, their ability to hold a gr...
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Home

Still miss the solace which looks into my saddened face after the stress of the day, heartbreaks in every way; sweat and toils mixed in the coarseness of the soil. There Mama's arm is open to hold when I feel sick and cold. There my pain is freely sold like the blacksmith furnace, I'm remold. Everyone cares, here I accept my failures and fears, I feel safe and I lived, only here love lived. I want to go home, take me home, I miss home, wish it was my home. © Nyeri's Pen ✍️
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What Philosophers believe

I visited my secondary classmate who introduced me to his friend as a philosophy student. She asked me "is it true philosophers don't believe in God"? I didn't give her a serious answer What then do we believe in? The truth is that we are opened to many facts even with those that are seen as mysterious. Philosophers are said to ask questions that can't be answered while theology don't question the answer, we see this in Christians that believe that what the bible say is true likewise the quran, veda and other religious scriptures. My understanding of philosophy, after my four years and my colleagues studying together with me would different. Some would be Theist, Atheist, Pragmatist, Idealist and all type of views they want to move by. Some would create ideologies. So what we believe is based on how we view a thing. We hear words like "Everybody is entitled to his opinion and belief". So in essence we have diverse belief in philosophy, but we are all...
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