PIKELELA GUTYUNGWA MEMOIRS

  Hello, I Am The Cripple Jesus Ignored! I know many of you out there will shout me down and scream.. Blasphemy! Would you believe me if I told you I was older than Jesus since I spent some 40 years begging for alms at the Temple? Hello. I was born and raised a cripple. I spent my whole life in a horizontal position because my feet were too weak to carry my heavy body. I couldn’t even afford to crawl since I was paralyzed waist down. It is hard for me to begin to tell you just how bad it felt to spend days without end watching people walk into the Temple to worship. It felt like a death sentence to be left all alone outside the House of God! Does God even know I existed? My heart would cry invisible tears sometimes. Even though I spent forty years sitting outside the Temple; no one, not even my family saw the need to carry me inside to worship. I really have no idea why people like me were not considered deserving to also worship in the Temple like ordinary folk...

  One Way Road People in life talk about higher and lower ground as if we live in two different worlds. You can make your life to be whatever reality you prefer. Preferences are regarded as realities sometimes. Modern day people have never been exposed to so many confusing signposts. Even though these signs point in all different directions, every sign leads to the desired destination. The decision is left to the road-users. Going North, South, East or West: the choice is yours. Always remember that whichever direction people prefer or choose, all of our movements like time are forward by nature. It’s hard to form a circle of people when they all go in all these confusing different directions. According to common sense, all roads in life should be advised by destination. The need always forces us to map up all the necessary steps we must complete before we can reach our destination. Like ants, humans are creatures of migration. There are so many identical be...

COMMENTS ..  I cannot begin be to tell you just how difficult it is to write a Story Song. It takes far longer to pen a story song than writing a Poem, Lamentation or just an Essay.  Writing a story song demands I turn into that character 100% in thoughts, lifestyle and capture the scenario complete with doors and windows for my audience to follow step step.  The Zacchaeus Story Song took me more than four days to finally sit down and pen it. I tossed and turned in my bed the other day, thinking like Zacchaeus but alas, my mind needed some resting.  May I invite you to browse and revisit some of my Story Songs I wrote in recent past. I promise, you'll be glad you did. Try the following highlighted topics below.  The Good Samaritan   Jesus Made Carry My Bed Hello, I'm Simon The Leper I Loved The Man Life Full Cycle  Well, I can’t remember them all, these will be good enough for your short cut. I encourage you to explore my Library, I have over 200 origi...

  When Sanity Makes No Sense! If life in general was as easy as in counting 1 2 3...most people would not have fallen victims and preys to all its dangerous curves. What your eyes usually see is not interpreted in the same reality inside your brain. The sad part of this dichotomy, without your brain activated there’ll be no corresponding actions. Our collective thoughts before the final action usually depends on the summary based on the total steps needed to achieve the desired results. My sanity informs me that results are always results despite the nature or colour of the outcomes. In education, exams always yield two opposing outcomes. Pass or fail is not one and the same thing even though they both come from the same source. When sanity makes no sense, is when one complains about one’s misfortunes looking over his neighbour’s fence: instead of their own backyards! When sanity makes no sense. I hear what you’re saying but, I do not agree with you. The whole c...

  Jesus Saw My Tears In The Dark! Like all the blind persons I was just sitting alone in my favourite corner, minding my own blind business. After sitting for years in one street corner, I became one with the place. There is no way for me to make you understand or imagine how we live in a world where there are no lights.   Blind persons are expected to be the most patient people in the world. Able bodied persons always feel pity and tone down their voices. If only these people could know just how much this irritates us, they’d stop and desist from treating us shamefully. Blind persons see and interpret the world through their surviving senses. I cannot count the heads of people like ordinary persons. Believe it or not, I can tell you exactly how many people there are in the same room by identifying their unique voices! Over a very long period of time, I’ve been hearing and listening to passers-by talking about this Prophet, the Man from Galilee. They said Jes...

    If I Could I Would! It is very strange how we humans sometimes view and look at life, as if it was inaccessible and far beyond the blue! We always get it wrong and label it as just another one sad day in our lives. Another pie in the sky! Whatever doesn’t affect us directly in a beneficiary way, often gets discarded into our river of forgetfulness right away. If I could I would. There has to be some magical connection between these two verbs before one could eventually cast themselves over and careen. If I could I would! Some people believe it’s just a matter of taking a leap of faith into the unknown destinations. What the hell happened to risk forecasting? If I could I would, but alas; these wishful shoes make me bounce directionless all over the rough planes of hard times. I float in the skies of dreams like a hydrogen filled balloon. If I could I would. I’d prick this balloon of frustration and free myself from all these things which weigh me down. If...

  Made In China! Most people in the Christian World would make you believe that God favours one political system than the others. Some would argue to their last breath that Democracy is the most preferred by God. There’s a large growing population of Right-wing Christians across the World who are convinced that God desires to turn the whole World into a Christian Nationalism. This tendency of forcefully inserting God in our man-made systems is not entirely unique. It’s always been there since time immemorial. The Jews believed that Jesus the Messiah was sent to set them free from the Roman Oppression. O boy, were they disappointed with Jesus! The nation of Israel had suffered in total, no less than more than a thousand years of political oppression by their enemies. The Romans took the biggest chunk and ending with the Ottoman Empire in 1917. Looking over our shoulders, the Democratic World always had this deep-seated envy and hatred for China. The Chinese have ...