Father Poem by Wensislaus Mbirimi

Enos so were you christened
Chibhareta being your common sobriquet
Marcus Garvey so me called you
Mukwariwa upon death your other title I learnt

Thief of human life
Death robbed me of my stem
Wensy the leaf left is wilting
Dad gone; only son, first born too, alone is left
How to live, who I to tutor
Your bidding life goodbye
While on manhood's door I knocked
Couldn't you have waited?

For life I coupled
My man by then you had unbuckled
Unrepentant, still to forgive and be forgiven
You left us all when you left me on leaving this life

Enos while on sick bed
Hired father on tow
Your son a daughter of the east he took for wife
Wish you were the one there
To pass the baton, initiating your offspring
To successfully recreate your generation

Was it disapproval Enos
To depart while new daughter prepared to visit
Knowing you, I will never know
Tight fisted, tight lipped, self-everything
Typical of you my dear father