David Chishimba Poems

I used to look at the days past,
years gone,
and look down gloomily at my feet and think 'what a host of living, where everyone dances in and out of my life'.
I had no knowledge that our lives were slanting towards each other like the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle..
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My face...
My face does not tell the tale of my past
It does not tell the hell and how long it had lasted...
It does not tell the mileage of all my past school shoes...
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I gasped for air, for it was my last.
I looked at her hair, for it was the last.
I don't know where I was going, that wasn't the worst.
Everyone was dropping tears as I gazed.
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My heart breaks for the heart broken
My heart bleeds for bleeding hearts...
Both the departed and the bereaved..
I die a little every time I think about the dead..
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If I could will my dreams
I would dream about the love of my life
In the garden our hands gliding on fresh lilies as we chess each other..
I would dream about our wedding day, over and over again..
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My condolences to the families of the victims of Haiti calamities,
My condolences to the families of the victims of the Rwandan genocide..
My condolences to the families of the victims of the Middle East wars..
My condolences to the families of the victims of the holocaust..
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After my teenage heartbreaks...
I reasoned love does not exist..
Then..I saw beautiful people claiming they had fallen for each other..
I found so much reason to believe and fall again..
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I am a strong man
I may not be well built or very handsome
I may not be the peoples favourite
But I move chin high and chest out
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The moment hearts await for
Both with good and bad will

The ones in union choose to ignore the reasons for not to be..
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A mouthful of words cannot console the. void left by a loved one..
It can neither be filled my a million other persons...
They can only be mere images of the fallen ones...
If only we knew how soon we are to lose loved ones, we would try as much as possible to have the most blissful moments with them as the days draw nigh....
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