Keeping It Real

 It's Thursday, May 2nd, 2013. The WOW team are watching a video in the Mibus Centre, upstairs at Horsham's Regional Library. 
Guess what they're watching on the laptop? 

The ABC Open video: "The Writing's On The Wall" 

starring themselves! 

There's Buket on ABC Open TV!

Some soulful writing from last Thursday's session at the Mibus Centre:

Harrison Htoo Po Kyaut  

To have a life in a bad world

Makes your dream cold and start to curl

But living in this world where people shine

you make good poems and your rhythms rhyme

---ooo---

Now that I'm in Australia, I will follow my dreams.

Now that I'm in Australia, I want to get a scholarship and go to university, then travel across the world.

With my opportunities, I will follow my dreams and help the people who are poor.

Soe Son Di Shwe ta Lee

 Feel

I feel

special and cool

when I have a home

some food and family near

But when I look at the homeless people

I feel like I want to help them

but I cant, I dont know what to do

it costs so much

---ooo---

When I was in Thailand, I was about four years old

and I really wished to be a person who has enough money

a person my parents want me to be

I wanted to be a lot of things

but it just never happened

So I prayed to the Lord to make it happen

and found myself at Werribee

Things just got better

My family got enough food

And we had a house...school....money.

I felt so well

the problem was that my parents did not speak English so well

But now I live in Horsham

my life gets even better

My parents are now at English school

And also my dream came true

now I am in a writing club

and my brother is at soccer training

that is his dream

my parents' dream has come true too

because my dad now has a job

and the people of Horsham help my family

people are kind here

Anyway 

I know my real dream will come true

I know that

because things will get better

and I am in a better place

Now I love it here.

Bernad Ngendakumana

Life is like a dream

Some dreams are good

And you don't want to wake up

But you eventually wake up

And you wish you were back in that dream

Well...

Horsham is like a good dream

But with this dream

When you wake up

You are still there

Today, in Army Lane, Bernad coloured in a beautiful frame for his philosophical message about life being a journey that has brought him to Horsham. I think the Army Lane wall is calling out for the whole poem from above the photo. I'm sure we can find a  place for it next Tuesday. 

It was Harrison who finished off the top line in Bernad's frame: "Love is safe." I had never thought about love being safe, I asked him what that meant for him. He answered, "When you love someone, it makes you feel safe". This is what I'm really lapping up during these WOW sessions, I'm being given so many fresh perspectives on the things in life that really matter most. I am sure readers and viewers are finding this to be the case also.

P'Leah Htoo Po Kyaut

I love living in Horsham.
My dream is to be a doctor.
When I am older, I want to go to Melbourne University.
I want to get a scholarship and a great job.

***

I would love it if all my family could come to Australia
And live a great life.

***

In my own world, 
everyone would live in peace
and guns would not be invented.
All of the bad stuff would not be invented.
Everyday
everybody would greet each other with a smile.