26/04/2026
Pastor Emmerson Malamba writes
THOSE WHO LEFT US IN THE FOREST HAVE NO RIGHT TO ASK WHAT THE WOLVES DID TO US.
BAZALWANE 🙌
There are wounds inflicted not by enemies, but by those who once stood close enough to call themselves ALLIES.
To be (left in the forest) is to be abandoned at the very moment that mattered most. And so the statement rises, not as bitterness, but as a declaration of moral clarity. "Those who left us in the forest have no right to ask what the wolves did to us"
The aforementioned edict is very vividly colored because, It is a refusal to entertain selective concern. A rejection of delayed sympathy. Because absence, at the critical hour, is not Neutral, it is PARTICIPATION.👏👏👏👏👏
BAZALWANE 👏
When people walk away in moments of crisis, they surrender their voice in the AFTERMATH. Yes! They forfeit the privilege of INQUIRY. Not because curiosity is Wrong, but because Responsibility was IGNORED. One cannot withdraw Protection and later demand Explanation. Aikona man
LISTEN 👂
Oftentimes, the same people who abandoned us are shocked by what we BECAME to endure. But Survival Bazalwane does not ask PERMISSION. It Adapts. It HARDENS. It CHANGES.
This truth speaks beyond Personal Relationships. It echoes in leadership, in communities, in institutions. When leaders ABANDON their people, they cannot later question the Consequences of that Abandonment. When systems Fail Individuals, they cannot Interrogate the Outcomes without first confronting their own SILENCE.
Yet, beneath the fire of this edict, lies something deeper than anger, it is dignity. It is the reclaiming of narrative. It is saying....You were not there. You do not get to Define what Happened.
At the same time, it challenges us inwardly. It ASKS; Where have we been absent in someone else’s forest? Because it is easy to quote the line as VICTIMS, but harder to confront it as PARTICIPANTS.
BAZALWANE 🙌
In the end, the edict is less about shutting people out and more about drawing a Boundary around Truth. It reminds us that:-
🈳PRESENCE matters.
🈳LOYALTY matters.
🈳TIMING matters.
Because when the forest grows DARK, what people REMEMBER is not just the WOLVES...but WHO-WALKED-AWAY.
So Be Kind-Be Nice-Be Conscious and Be Caring, because the future is PREGNANT and at any time the future can give BIRTH.
Those who left us in the forest have no right to ask what the wolves did to us.
