chichichapatile mangochi Poems

I stand here
Before you
Undressed, nude and stark
Like unclothed sun
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Evey morning he takes us to the river,
to graze and drink water and play
our mooing he does not understand
Unor his glum face and language do we withstand
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A day start as was yesterday
picking up pieces of fractured day
no breakfast to break the fast
but to fasten the lips with seals of distant hopes
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It was like any other day,
the sun shining, wind blowing
gently, mysteriously across the Atlantic
carrying a message of sadness
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'You must go home my husband,
life's but a farce;
the lion and lioness of this land
are roaring in the distance. '
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It springs from a well of humanness,
infectious and sometimes conspicuous;
even marriage or religion cannot
dictate who to love,
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Our tears keep on falling
Too soon the champion of freedom
Gone…
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Why do you hunt us like game?
Whose children are we?
And whose children are you?
When a tree is cut down
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A shopper walks into the shop
passes the security guard cocksure
entrance and entranced
at exorbitant price tags
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his strokes of walking are,
exact and measured
like mathematical sum of one
plus one
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