What is the purpose of The Tearless Cry?
The purpose of "The Tearless Cry" is to provide a context to fit the distinct events that preoccupy our life, it as a journey through the pillars of our existence: Life and the reason for our being, Poverty and War as the tumbling block of our progress, Peace and the struggle to its achievement, Love and its complexity, the quest for individuality and the cry of the masses yearning to breath freedom.

You talked about life and the reason for our being, what have you learned in your journey through life?
Life other than being the most powerful and most brilliant of the proofs of divine unity, it is also a mirror of bitter truth, a school from which we learn, we are tested and graded, pushed forward or backward depending of our performance. The only time we graduate is when we pass on and cease to exist.

We as living beings have different experiences and understandings of life. One of the fundamental things I have learned is that the small things in life matter most and until we live to embrace them, we will be doomed to live in chains. I am still learning new things and working towards fulfilling my reason to be.

You talked about poverty and war as a tumbling block of our progress, what do you mean by that?
We live in a society where modern man in defined by progress. His self-esteem is rooted in it and it is his deepest justification for the ruthlessness he displays towards his fellow man and nature.

Poverty, hunger, disease, oppression, conflict, pollution, depletion of natural resources are hardships that some of us ignore and have never come in contact with but to millions upon millions of our fellow human beings, these are their daily lives.

One of them might be a woman in a rural district – who, year by year, finds she has to walk for miles in search of food, water and fuel. Unable to afford any form of transportation, her back aches from the long journey carrying a heavy load, but her heartaches even more from the fear that failure will expose herself and her children to hunger, thirst and disease.

Another might be a young lad who, year after year, finds himself looking after the cattle’s and working in the fields. His parents unable to pay for his education, and for him not able to know his potential, he is left with nothing but to watch as hope fades away. His heartaches even more from the fear that he will end up just like his father and grandfather with no chance of making it in the outside world.

How much longer can their way of life be sustained? They all are trying to keep their heads above water just to save them selves from drowning but their fate seems to be all worked out designed to keep them down.

Sep 20th 1963 President John F Kennedy stood in front of the United Nation General Assembly and said: "Never before has man had such capacity to control his own destiny, to end thirst and hunger, to conquer poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and massive human misery. We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world--or make it the last."

Now more than ever, we have all the necessary tools needed to change the course of our existence. To step in and help a fallen neighbor, to hug and give a smile to a total stranger but very few have dared to try.

We still have the power Kennedy talked about, what we need is to stretch our hands and reach to the roaring sound. You will be surprised to find out that the poor people in poor countries are not asking for a handout. They have enormous, untapped reservoirs of initiative and entrepreneurship, but their energies are often held in check by poverty, misrule or conflict. I bet you, they would be the first to say that trade, not aid, is the path out of poverty.

What about war?

Insane, a curse word is all I can say. When I think of war, a lot comes in mind. I see men who call themselves warriors ready for the battle fields, I see fields flattened by bombs and men blackened with a pair of holes for eyes, I see children wondering what went wrong, I see all that and many more. I know we are not the first and wont be the last to go to war. But, won’t it be a good idea if we set an example that will go down in history books as generation or a century that never went to war?

As for the soldiers heading for the frontline, they are young and full of energy but none wants to die. When I see them boarding the ships ready for the front line, all I can ask is why. As they slowly drift away, their loved ones are drowning in tears and probably will never see them again. Funny I always think while waving at them, days and nights will be long for them, they will be longing for a letter, for the love they have left behind. They are giving their souls for a country that might never remember them. Some might be fighting a war that was never a part of them and then I wonder why.

As for the victims, they are innocent but war knows no good or evil. Thousands of them will be slaughtered, and the rest their lives will be changed forever. Mass exodus to some unhygienic refugee camps that will be created, they will loose their relatives and friends, and will be forced to live with painful memories till their last of days and worst of all is the hate that has just been embedded into their minds.

And the politicians, I always sit and wonder do they think of the consequences of all this? It’s sad when you get to a point of answering your own questions. Yes they do but since the most important thing to them is the urge to an acquisition of an empire hence reaping economic benefits, they then care less about the lives that might be lost, families that might be broken and worst of all, they always seem to care less about the two countries that might never live in peace again.

What do you mean by the farmland of living beings?

Science and Technology has taken us to a different level. The diseases that once wiped up a generation and other that we never thought could be cured are curable today. We now know what’s beyond our planet because of our capability to go to space and do researches. There are some things science needs to respect and let it be. They first started with rat, then pigs, then sheep’s and cats and now some scientists are working day and night to clone a living being. Why do we have to go this far? My worry is that if this is not stopped soon, a time will come when a man and a woman might not be needed for reproduction, and I don’t want to imagine what might happen next.

What do you mean when you said “Black Tuesday” was the beginning of the end?

Very few people in the world today would say they don’t know of what happened on September the eleventh two thousand and one. To say that this incident did not affect each one of us we would be lying. So since it did affect us in different ways, what have we done or are we doing to make sure it will never happen in the future? I would bet you every one wants to live in peace, but there is no peace where there is no justice. September the eleventh pauses a lot of questions and the best thing is, there are as many questions as there are answers. So why not step up and stop this so called wave of terror. Why not make it the beginning of the end to terror.

Who are “The Children of Abraham”?

The three greatest religions Christians, Jews and Muslims shed their exclusive claim on Abraham. These three cousins happen to be the cause of massive deaths around the world. And I am not only talking of about Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat in Israel and Palestine, its everywhere in America, Europe, Asia and Africa. The hate they have for each other is what gives birth to barbaric leaders like Milosovich of Yugoslavia, Sadam Hussein of Iraq, Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Aristid of Haiti just to mention but a few.

I wish we would all learn from history, drive away the resentment we have on each other, stop the salvage bloodshed that has destroyed generations of innocent lives for the sole purpose of maintaining political power and control of land, oil and water. I wish we would all live together in peace.

Albert Einstein once said: "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."

You talk about the Apocalypse in your poem “Revelation”?

Everyone wants to go to heaven, but none wants to die. It’s only when we are hit by a tragedy that we start talking of the day of reckoning. We invade the bookstores, Internet and libraries looking for any writing that will tell about the end of time. We trying to track prophecies: quakes, floods, plagues, diseases, crime, false prophets and economic measurements like unemployment that add up to instability and civil unrest, in other words we try to find how close we are to the end. We fill up holy shrines ready to cleanse our being, all these because we are scared that the day might be now. Why do we have to wait until it’s too late?

You talk about “The Quest for Peace” by the religious leaders in Assisi, Italy?

It was a meeting where representatives of the world’s organized religions were gathered to pray for peace. We are living in a world where peace is threatened by terrorism, intolerance, and injustice. I believe everyone is tired of hearing or seeing death by masses, fields filled with landmines, missiles ruling the skies and suicide bombers shrouding their bodies. It was a wonderful thing to see the world religious leaders come together and pray together as one.

Now since they all got together and showed their fellowship, what I would like to know is what message did they take to their people from Assisi? It does not matter how much they prayed for peace what matters is what they have preached to their congregations about peace.

“Violence never again! War never again! Terrorism never again! In the name of God, may every religion bring upon the earth justice and peace, forgiveness and life, love! ” - Pope John Paul II

Who are “The Youthful Faces”?

Street children throughout the world are subject to physical abuse by police or have been murdered outright, as governments threat them as a blight to be eradicated rather than as children to be natured. The public’s view of the street children in many countries is overwhelmingly negative. They support the efforts to get these children off the streets at any cost even when it might lead to murder.

Do you know how it feels to be called an outcast, walk into the shop and hope they don’t call the cops on you? How it feels to carry an invisible sign on their shoulder written “The Black Sheep”. How it feels to know you are like a target in a shooting range. I don’t think you do but those poor children of the street live with all that.

Do you know how it feels not to have toys when you are growing up, not to be hugged, kissed and smiled at. How it feels to live everyday in your life hoping someone will take you in, and for the first time you will discover the feeling of waking up to find yourself in bed, not a flat concrete rock, find yourself tucked up into the sheets, not wrapped up in plastic rags, see yourself woken up to share the best part of the morning with the rest family. I still don’t think you do.

You don’t know how it feels not to have a place called home; people called family and the best thing in life called love. But those young innocent children know all this because that’s what they go through every day.

They are young, beautiful innocent kids. It’s unfortunate for them, because they live everyday of their life waiting for the sun to shine on them. They live everyday of their life yearning to breathe the marvelous air of love.

We lived in Darkness?

They throw the children to prison for a crime they did not commit. They then touchier them some to their death, others end up with permanent physical damages while the others live to tell their stories. These barbaric acts should be forbidden. The last time I checked we all called claimed to be a civilized society.

These innocent children are viewed as menace to society, but we forget one thing, it was not their wish to be what they are and to be where they are. Many governments need to come up with programs that educate women. And other programs that get the children off the streets to homes where they get the fundamental human needs. What I am saying is the governments need to do something, to help these children.

Organizations like the United Nations also need to play a part in all this they need to push on governments by coming up with programs and monitoring the programs. I consider this to be a human right violation and countries that condone this should be held accountable. This is a global problem believe it or not and if we ignore it, it will come back to bite us at the end.

“I want to go” a very touchy poem, where is this that you want to go?

It has a lot meanings buried deep in it. I will give you one of the meanings. As an independent individualist, I get curious of a lot of things. As much as I am a Christian, there are some scientific phenomenons that excite me. The fact that there might be a parallel world blows my mind. "Quantum Physics" has several equally valid models it uses to describe the odd behavior of matter at the sub atomic level. One of these is the "Parallel World Theory". That is, most of what we call "Paranormal" is attributed to the supposed existence of "parallel worlds or universes" that exist in the same space as our own and each other, yet, normally; do not interact with each other. This phenomenon intrigues me, and the best of it all is when I start creating it in my mind. So I would love to have a view of this so called parallel world maybe its different out there who knows…

It looks like you have heard your fare share of Love?

You bet I have. That’s why it’s called love, you can’t explain it, you can’t define its magnitude, and the scariest part of it is it can go faster than it came. You never look to calling an end to it, but if and when you do, it would be good to look back and question yourself on what you have learned from it so you get to perfect it the next of time.

In your poem “If I…”, you say you would have paused your time if you knew the kind of world you are coming to. Why would you do that?

Just look around you and tell me given the chance to pause your time you would not do it. What a scene to know you will find a man giving another man head, or a woman asking another to bed. I thought Babylon was burnt down. To wake up every morning and knowing you will meet that person/people who do not want to see the sight of you just because you are different, that and many more would make me pause my time and ask out loud why me, why now.

“Aluta Continua” what does it mean and what’s the message behind it?

Aluta Continua is a word that was used by the South Africans during the Apartheid Era. It means, “The Struggle Still Continues.” It’s a powerful word when you get to look deep into it. To me it’s a reminder of where we have come from as mankind and a good reflection of what we are and the struggles we are going though at these tumultuous days.

In this world we have a lot of poor souls, souls struggling just to live for the day but unfortunately for them it’s not as easy as it might seem to us. So it’s time we give each other hope, remind each other of where it all started. The men who showed us the path to riches and freedom, they gave us hope when we were deep in the valley of despair. They gave us courage when tranquility was too rare. They never drank from the cup of bitterness and hate. They are the men who fought with very fiber of their being.

“Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.” -- Mohandas Gandhi

“We can help make the world safe for diversity. For in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.” -- John F Kennedy

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil--hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars--must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Only understanding for our neighbors, justice in our dealings, and willingness to help our fellow men can give human society permanence and assure security for the individual.” -- Albert Einstein

“Of all our studies, history is best qualified to reward our research.” -- Malcolm X

“There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desire.” -- Nelson Mandela

These are powerful words from some of the powerful men of our times. Men some of us have forgotten but they are the men who are the reason of our being here. They are the great men of our history we all should know. Lets keep on keeping on, the struggle still continues.

You dedicate a poem to “Tupac Shakur”, a lot of people knew him as a radical, hardcore rapper, what do you view him as?

Tupac Shakur was a rapper. His music had a lot of deep meaning, a lot of people saw him as a troublemaker, but when you get to understand Tupac, he is the real rose that grew from concrete.

Bob Marley was a world known reggae musician, what part did he play in this struggle?

I grew up listening to his music, every time I listened to it got better and better. He rocked the world with his melodies; No woman no cry, to buffalo soldiers, to getup standup. He proved to be way before his time.

And what’s next after this?

Life is too short for anyone not to have something to do. Right now am working hard with different organization to set up a home for homeless children and children whose parents have died of HIV/AIDS in Kenya. It is not an easy task because everything we do needs money. So with the small we are getting from the sales of “The Tearless Cry”, including the contribution we get from people in different corners of the world, we are putting all this together for a good cause.

I am also working on my second book and this time its not Poetry.

Aluta Continua…