C’Est La Vie

By Amare Abebe

A book is never
Judged by cover,
Didnt you hear?
But then, why here?
Go back to the pages,
And read em loud.
The silver linings are
Deep in the cloud.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Partridge Publishing Africa
• Release date: Oct 12, 2015
• ISBN: 9781482810172

Amare Abebe

Amare is a cosmologist whose professional training includes a PhD and master’s degrees from the University of Cape Town. He is currently a senior lecturer at North-West University. When not deriving equations that describe, or teach about, the universe, he likes to question things that are often taken for granted and scribble about them.

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Contents

The astronomer in love

Philosophy, My Mistress

I only see…

Why bad when good is good?

The Astronomer at Night [1]

Illusions of grandeur

The Meaning of Life

Twinkle

Injuria naturalis

Up in the air

Efficiency

Yonderhere

Birds of a feather

The blind lawmaker

The price of life

Tru^{th}

When I die, if I die…

Past and future at present

Master vs Slave

Africry

Your day is done

Was!

Children of Yarmouk

Letter to oppressor

Little Powledge

Beaunity

Missing you

Nostalgia

Putinocracy

Farther, greener

Africry [2]

Promise

Mistaken slave?

Love and hate

Korea, North and South

Fair and clean

The world as delusion

Humanity:

a self-inflicted mess

The Ubuntu Manifesto

On zeros and heroes

Challenge to the devious god

Children of war

Incommunicado

Desert flower

Nostalgia

Waiting time

The Mandela we revere

Cuando la vida se termina

What I am

A buzzword called freedom

That day…

Long walk to freedom

The anniversary

Utopia

I love you more

The exclusion principle

Outsider

Hypocritia

Share me your dreams

Utopia [2]

Friends versus foes

Before my ashes

Sky-high

The angry of Sudan

Damon and Pythias

Eye-for-eye

Self image

Tempus, adhuc fugit.

Passenger-captain-ship-ocean

One in two

The forgotten of Sudan

Democrarchy

ICC- too lame to blame?

Ignoland

The butterfly effect

Nothing to buy from the talkshop

Into the blue sky

Egsupia

Thanks, Mother!

Dark Energy

Deus ridiculum est

Live life alive

Assaditis

Habemus Papam!

Justice

The life of Pi

Annus amoris

Africa speaking

Time travel

Why, Syria?

When in Rome

Romeo and Juliet-II

Give before you take

Judge not, lest ye shall be judged

From Addis with Change

Tears from the sky

Gazrael

To the scientist

a thousand years hence

I quit!

To the poet

a thousand years thence*

The Exam

Slaves of Faith

Fire on Fire

UN[ited Talkshop of Nations]

Accident and Design

Tempus fugit

It’s OK

Why, Damascus?

The World as Idea

The Exam [2]

The World as Will

The World as Illusion

Rome

Tempus fugit [2]

The nature of Nature

Simple, Cripple

Against the law

Fallacy

Mia mia Tripoli

The Astronomer at Night [2]

C’est la Vie

Types of People

Freedom

Resurrection of

the Curious Cat

Life: The Cage,

The Needle or the Stage

You are here, darling

Inconsiderate

Lex non scripta

Dreams

One Day

In Memoriam

Democrazy!

Blackholes

It Goes on Any Way

Dream Deferred*

The Scramble for Eternity

C’est la vie [2]

In Memoriam [2]

Astrology

God: Powerful?

Giving

C’est la vie [3]

The astronomer in love

Love me, be free

Dance with the stars,

Love knows no rules

And fears no scars.

Allow me to be

In love with thee

‘Hold your hands at night,

Let the moons gaze in awe,

And smile the stars in ‘light.

Let the barriers of love tremble

And the galaxies shrink in fear,

So love speaks loud and free,

And the universe bring us near.

Philosophy, My Mistress

I take solace in you when I am sick,

When the future of my life seems bleak;

I consult