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They must Fall

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  When seasons come and go the morning turns to evening When I walk around campus am usually in a hurry, I have no time to look at trees, the sky, or anything else. My mind is focused on where am going and what I am doing next. I have to be intentional about stopping to look around. To just breathe and appreciate the beauty around me. To look at God's creation and just get lost in the wonder of his majestic creation. Back to my walk, I notice that the trees were changing colors and shedding their leaves. I was like all yeah it's fall I should expect to see these leaves fall. But then I looked closely at the color changes, they were not all the same. Some trees had completely changed, some were still in the process and some had not changed at all. They all had different sheds ranging from red, yellow, orange, brown, and black . They looked beautiful. All of them. But this beauty also meant that these leaves were about to fall off the trees and soon the trees would be bare.  Be...

Never lose the spirit of dance

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Never lose the spirit of dance You can chain a man's hands but you can never chain his soul. Never lose the spirit of dance, We danced in the space of time since. In those slave plantations we danced, In the heat wave of apartheid we danced, Through our independence struggles, we danced  We will dance We are dancing  We are dance, We dance at wedding parties, we dance at birthday get-togethers, We dance at graduation ceremonies, we dance even at funerals as we celebrate the lives of those that once were We dance at the sound of life being born  I smile at the skills of an African child, As she turns her waist round and round at a young age, As the boy moves around the house making all manner of moves We dance to the sound of the ocean waters and to the raindrops  Under the sunshine and under the moon  We dance under the shadows of a cloudy day And under the promise of the rainbow  Fine-tunes forming from within  The ancient songs of the old  It ca...