Blood pressure rising
Eyes are lighting
People waiting, standing still
Today’s the day, strengthen your will
No pain, no gain, so they say
Fight it all, it’s just today
No yesterday, no tomorrow
Sleeping now will give you sorrow
Give it all, speed the frame
Exceed your strength, don’t be lame
Competition makes you best
You’re a soldier, that is no test
You’re a killer, you are a beast
The enemy over there is your feast
Hunt, bite, kill, destroy
Winning is your only joy
Blood pressure’s rising, so much higher
Hunt them down, you’re a destroyer
If they loose or if they die
What to care – give them your tie
They’re the losers of the game
See they were just too lame
So forget them now – your fight is lone
More enemies still waiting to take them on
The end if yours that is sure
Adrenalin of victory is so pure
A winner is in your strong heart
Be your only powerful guard
Wednesday 21 December 2011
Monday 25 October 2010
Child Soldiers...
A knife, a gun and a bullet
You’re a kid, don’t fight with it
Eight or nine years of age
What happens? Where’s the outrage?
You run, you hide, you shoot, you kill
A bullet is a razor’s sharp pill
A man goes down, you don’t know
Thinking a game, so how should it go?
The harm is implanted into your souls
Wait; soon there’ll be some dark ghouls
They haunt, they scream, they’re there
Of darkest nightmares, you should beware
Men stole all from you and your friends
Your childhood, happiness and innocence
Can’t get it back, it’s long gone
Too much happened, you all go on
You hide, you run, you fight, you kill
Knowing just that’s your masters will
He gets you if you don’t obey
Hope is gone; you just lost your way
Years have passed, you finally left
Can’t forget that unimaginable theft
The theft’s been the worst to be
Your soul has died, can you be free?
The sparkling eyes, the laugher’s gone
Where did it go? How can life go on?
You’re sitting there, begging and crying eyes
No need for words, enough for days
Your gun is gone, your commander too
What happened is just left with you
You spend the nights caught in dark hell
No help is there, no one to raise the bell
Ghouls and dead souls come every night
Screaming, you wake up, sweaty, you cried
Cried, pain is now all over your soul
Hope someday, they disappear, that ghoul
The greatest theft of all out time
Is being committed globally, just the same
Children are destroyed with no end
Don’t forget, it’s on them we depend
To destroy the children is easy enough
The world will be caught in a deadly cough
The world will choke on the misery
Soon you see: we killed our destiny!
You’re a kid, don’t fight with it
Eight or nine years of age
What happens? Where’s the outrage?
You run, you hide, you shoot, you kill
A bullet is a razor’s sharp pill
A man goes down, you don’t know
Thinking a game, so how should it go?
The harm is implanted into your souls
Wait; soon there’ll be some dark ghouls
They haunt, they scream, they’re there
Of darkest nightmares, you should beware
Men stole all from you and your friends
Your childhood, happiness and innocence
Can’t get it back, it’s long gone
Too much happened, you all go on
You hide, you run, you fight, you kill
Knowing just that’s your masters will
He gets you if you don’t obey
Hope is gone; you just lost your way
Years have passed, you finally left
Can’t forget that unimaginable theft
The theft’s been the worst to be
Your soul has died, can you be free?
The sparkling eyes, the laugher’s gone
Where did it go? How can life go on?
You’re sitting there, begging and crying eyes
No need for words, enough for days
Your gun is gone, your commander too
What happened is just left with you
You spend the nights caught in dark hell
No help is there, no one to raise the bell
Ghouls and dead souls come every night
Screaming, you wake up, sweaty, you cried
Cried, pain is now all over your soul
Hope someday, they disappear, that ghoul
The greatest theft of all out time
Is being committed globally, just the same
Children are destroyed with no end
Don’t forget, it’s on them we depend
To destroy the children is easy enough
The world will be caught in a deadly cough
The world will choke on the misery
Soon you see: we killed our destiny!
Thursday 7 October 2010
New pix...
Check out the new pix from my current trip...go to "All pix"... hope you enjoy them as much I did when taking them... ;-)
Greets from sunny Uvira on the shore of Tanganyika Lake
Daniel
Greets from sunny Uvira on the shore of Tanganyika Lake
Daniel
Thursday 9 September 2010
First Sponsor: Majorcard / petaFuel
As I will not receive any funds from any official source to finance my research trip to D.R. Congo, I am happy for having found my first sponsor: Majorcard from petaFuel. They already supported my biking tour in 2007. Now they provide me again with wonderful option of withdrawing money without debit fees! Thanks guys!
New Adventure ahead: 3 months stay in D.R. Congo with NGO Arche d'Alliance
Now it is getting closer again: the next trip to an adventurous destination. On September 21, 2010 I will head out: flying from Frankfurt/Main to Kigali/Rwanda. Then some means of transportation will bring me to the Congolese border and further to Uvira - the town of my stay for the coming three months.
After having finalized the Masters Of Peace and Security Programm in Hamburg (Thesis: "Child Soldiers At Gun Point - the Ethical Challenges of German Soldiers in Military Conflicts with Armed Children"), I will join the local NGO Arche d'Alliance to learn about their projects and cooperations. One of the fields of their activities lies on the aspects of the child soldier doctrine. Mostly they try to get child soldiers out of rebel groups, implement the particular awareness in the society, act as lobbyists on political level and support the reintegration of former child soldiers into the society.
In my opinion, such work is one of the most important ones in order to reestablish a conflict-torn society. How could a society ever function again, if the children are completely messed up? How could this work, if children are used to killing, raping, beheading or other monstrous deeds? The society must learn about protecting their offspring otherwise they take away any chance of a positive future development.
For further reading on the child soldier doctrine, I like to draw your attention on the book of P.W. Singer: Children At War (non-fiction) or Ishmael Beah: A long way gone (Biography). If interested, I can provide you with my masters thesis (written in German) as well. It gives details and further information on such a terrible and frightening issue.
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