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The verses connect sickness with spiritual endurance, urging believers to work urgently, stay ready, and place hope in the Lord. Imagery of Uganda’s riverside scenes, ruins, boats, and the setting sun reinforces themes of mortality, time passing, and the enduring light beyond death.","Mwase the Sunshine  \nCornelius Wambi Gulere  \nEnglish Culture  \nCancer for us all  \nTo work and lurk in all  \nLike his own and friend Nankyama Theodorous slept So has Livistone Mpalanyi Nkoyoyo rersted  \nAfter eventful service to God in special ways.  \nCancer of the body has teasted death in Jonah Lwanga Who tested of death and like Jonah, death could not conain him And back to us, sput him to witness to the Lord.  \nCancer is Uganda is the household disease of all days Why has cnancer come to live like walumbe with Nambi came? For want of millet to feed the chicken,  \nIs it the food we eat?  \nNakabululu, Nakitembe banana is long forgotten Is it the food we eat that cancer bring?  \nWe are as happy as he  \nAdvising, contending, serving, envisioning, pushing That whatever you do it it quickly  \nSo do I copy your motto, dear Nkoyoyo What remains for me to do  \nI promise to do it quickly  \nAs the cancer eats into me to my rest and sleep In time not far from now.  \nBe ready, therefore, work around the clock To prepare the way for your last days As they fast come  \nLet your hope be in the Lord.  \nMwase the Sunshine  \nImages by Cornelius Wambi Gulere, © 2018 Photographs were taken by Cornelius Wambi Gulere at Namasagali College River Nile quay side. CC-BY-ND 4.0.  \nUSAID/ADEA/ADB  \nEnglish  \nUganda  \nCopyright © 2018, Cornelius Wambi Gulere  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)[ ](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/)[You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[ ](You may not use this work for commercial purposes. You may)[adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and](adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and)[ ](adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and)[credits for authors](credits for authors) , illustrators, etc.  \nAdapted from original, Copyright © 2018, Cornelius Wambi Gulere. Licensed under CC-BY-ND 4.0.  \nI thank the ADEA Intern-Country Quality Node on Teaching and Learning (ICQN-TL) Training of Trainers Bloom Software Workshop 6-9 September 2018 Kampala, Uganda  \nThese ruins remind me of Ozymandias  \nOnce the great king dies, his greatness plungs Leaving the bare wall and ruins apart in rings As a memory like the Namasagali piers.  \nThe sun set above the four docked boats stayed in soggy mud amidst the bushes and hyacinth  \nThere is the net and floater and the coats Yet no fish of any kind small or big has been cought  \nI look out over the fragile ground  \nBeyond the floating island a fisher man sings The trees acknowledge the echos  \nThe sun is now set to rest beside the Nile  \nIn a nother place the same sun is setting Behind the trees he hides his golden glitters Yet the arrows of his brightness remain Piercing through the dark shades of time.  \nLike the great kings time passes and dies This great boat too has turned over her other side  \nYet the sun still shines bright as she lies On her side beside  \nAt the back of my head are the ruins Who built, lived, worked in here? How firm and strong, as its ill groans Hope and years ahead to adhere.","cbCaidK0lBRDGXXr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaidK0lBRDGXXr","pdf",7636758,1,12,"English","en",105,"# Mwase the Sunshine\n## Cancer and its spiritual meaning\n## Everyday life questions and reminders\n## Readiness, hope, and the setting sun","[{\"question\":\"What central theme does the poem present about cancer?\",\"answer\":\"Cancer is portrayed as a shared, household disease that brings death concerns, while the poem frames endurance through faith and hope.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the poem encourage the reader in the face of illness?\",\"answer\":\"It calls for readiness, steady work, and placing hope in the Lord, emphasizing spiritual preparation for “last days.”\"},{\"question\":\"What role does the imagery of the sun and riverside ruins play?\",\"answer\":\"The setting sun and the described ruins and boats symbolize mortality, time passing, and the persistence of light and memory beyond death.\"}]",1784298261,18,{"code":4,"msg":30,"data":31},"ok",{"site_id":24,"language":23,"slug":32,"title":13,"keywords":33,"description":14,"schema_data":34,"social_meta":85,"head_meta":87,"extra_data":89,"updated_unix":27},"mwase-the-sunshine-a-christian-poem-on-cancer-and-hope","",{"@graph":35,"@context":84},[36,52,67],{"@type":37,"itemListElement":38},"BreadcrumbList",[39,43,46,49],{"item":40,"name":41,"@type":42,"position":20},"https://docshare.wps.com","Home","ListItem",{"item":44,"name":45,"@type":42,"position":11},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/","Document",{"item":47,"name":12,"@type":42,"position":48},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/literature/",3,{"item":50,"name":13,"@type":42,"position":51},"https://docshare.wps.com/document/mwase-the-sunshine-a-christian-poem-on-cancer-and-hope/90916/",4,{"url":50,"name":13,"@type":53,"author":54,"headline":13,"publisher":56,"fileFormat":59,"inLanguage":23,"description":14,"dateModified":60,"datePublished":61,"encodingFormat":59,"isAccessibleForFree":62,"interactionStatistic":63},"DigitalDocument",{"name":9,"@type":55},"Person",{"url":40,"name":57,"@type":58},"DocShare","Organization","application/pdf","2026-07-22","2026-07-17",true,{"@type":64,"interactionType":65,"userInteractionCount":20},"InteractionCounter",{"@type":66},"ViewAction",{"@type":68,"mainEntity":69},"FAQPage",[70,76,80],{"name":71,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":73},"What central theme does the poem present about cancer?","Question",{"text":74,"@type":75},"Cancer is portrayed as a shared, household disease that brings death concerns, while the poem frames endurance through faith and hope.","Answer",{"name":77,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":78},"How does the poem encourage the reader in the face of illness?",{"text":79,"@type":75},"It calls for readiness, steady work, and placing hope in the Lord, emphasizing spiritual preparation for “last days.”",{"name":81,"@type":72,"acceptedAnswer":82},"What role does the imagery of the sun and riverside ruins play?",{"text":83,"@type":75},"The setting sun and the described ruins and boats symbolize mortality, time passing, and the persistence of light and memory beyond death.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":50,"og:type":86,"og:title":13,"og:site_name":57,"og:description":14},"article",{"robots":88,"canonical":50},"index,follow",{"doc_id":7,"site_id":24},{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":91},[92,96,99,103,108,113,118,123,128,131,135],{"id":20,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":93,"show_sort_weight":94,"slug":95},"Story & Novel",90,"story-novel",{"id":11,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":12,"show_sort_weight":97,"slug":98},80,"literature",{"id":51,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":100,"show_sort_weight":101,"slug":102},"Exam",70,"exam",{"id":104,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":105,"show_sort_weight":106,"slug":107},5,"Comic",60,"comic",{"id":109,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":110,"show_sort_weight":111,"slug":112},6,"Technology",50,"technology",{"id":114,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":115,"show_sort_weight":116,"slug":117},7,"Healthcare",40,"healthcare",{"id":119,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":120,"show_sort_weight":121,"slug":122},8,"Research & Report",30,"research-report",{"id":124,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":125,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":127},9,"Religion & Spirituality",20,"religion-spirituality",{"id":126,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":129,"show_sort_weight":126,"slug":130},"World Cup","world-cup",{"id":132,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":133,"show_sort_weight":132,"slug":134},10,"Lifestyle","lifestyle",{"id":136,"doc_module":4,"doc_module_name":45,"category_name":137,"show_sort_weight":104,"slug":138},19,"General","general"]