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ori’kahangare (a prayer for your weak heart)

ori’kahangare
is a prayer
my own people say
words strung into hymns
an ask to the gods
intentions spoken to travel through the worlds,

ori’kahangare 
we mean
may you live on 
may you live long.

ori’kahangare
abarijya nabo barya kwatiraho
walking on paths you have laid
ori’kahangare
ngu okwezi n’okwezi 
abowanyu bagume bari’abowanyu

ori’kahangare 
that on this day,
this day that is yet here,
this prayer that we say to each other
may hold yours and mine,
our weak hearts
as we need it.

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