The journey

Peace I love and in silence I rejoice

in a thesis of a different nature

I exercise my researcher’s voice 

Issues as contentious as human rights,
violent conflicts of different kinds
have been my passion since undergrad,
but a topic as focused I haven’t had

Twisty and winding the road has been

the plan has changed but I am still keen

on having a ready thesis, that is my feeling,

by 2016, one summer evening

    

Grassroots justice,

horrendous crime

Rwandan genocide

healed only by time?

More trust in myself, no perfectionism

less criticism and more optimism

the journey has begun

I need to let my pen run!

~Janette Sorsimo