Sofie's Voice: Still alive

STILL ALIVE
Nelson Mandela;

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For others this name reflects,
A violent man whose best habitation was jail and who really deserved been there.
And the next effect;
An unreasonable man with no sense of keeping a stable marital home; three marriages he dare.
Or this man who had to suffer humiliation, violence and dehumanisation, deem to be fit for that because he was black.
The click of his name flicks me with contemplation.
For me the true image of a father is the best description.
Nelson Mandela the madiba.

Clear fact; he was no saint;
Sinful blood he got in his veins.
But a man not like any other.
True hero I proudly call African father.
Ponder on his heart, even when sunder, yet still full of love.
He thought us to always remember;
Hatred shouldn’t shower this beautiful world’s diversity of colour, religion or race.
And that those who are born with lessons to hate,
They can be thought to love and that ideology he deeply embraced.

Cause though imprison 27years by the South African apartheid government,
As soon as elected president; reconciliation of race was one of his greatest accomplishments.

Analysing his deeds, he got the credit neither because he was black nor because he couldn’t be white,
But because, he was a true father with a heart full of love.
Love laid aside he was a great leader
He taught us to remember;
Real leaders must be ready to sacrifice for the freedom of their people.
But I really wonder if we ever got that ideology.
Then why should embezzlement be our government reality?
Why should selfishness and exploitation be the perfect image of our government?
He wasn’t just making a noise so loud like that of our government so much it can shake the clouds
But he sacrifice 27 years for his people although some days he felt like giving up
A human vice no one can deny
As he one down crutched on his hopes aspirations and dreams by saying;
Today am prepared to die so brave he fought to rise

His humble compassionate and loving heart made of him no one else than a great leader
Full of integrity
That’s why he feared no force of inhumanity and cruelty
He defines the perfect reflection of determination
Rose above his circumstances and achieved success
What a father who hoped for the future
Believing many paid the price before him unlike; martin Luther king
And that many will pay the price after him

Looking at this hero’s life I often questioned
How could a man be good enough to get closer to perfection?
But he awakes my spirit by telling me this;
Don’t judge me by my successes but by how many times I fell and rose up again
And I say; “no your greatness is unquestionable cause even your losses you turn them to gain”
And he tells me again “because courage is not the absence of fear but the triumph over it
When you are determine you overcome anything”

Nelson Mandela; his name forever dwelling in history
Cause his wisdom and strength great enough to be called mystery
And from generation to generations he will forever be remembered as a hero
Admired yesterday today till tomorrow
“When you live on the heart of those you love you will never die “NELSON MANDELLA
That’s why I say nelson Mandela; still alive.