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And everyday
Your absence rattles like jingles of guns
In my heart
Your love handcuffs the poet
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For Zakiya
(Dear, Love...)
There is no sand-storm that can obliterate the reality of who we are and what I am with you. This love that's here before us knows the name of forever, and these hearts that live with us before these bodies have swon to the call of this love; to live beyond where the wind stops, to ripple from tides to torrents and then another; unstopable cascade, like your love; the atlas of unknown heavens, like your face that washes the moon into night, like your voice that carries the taste of sugar-cane, like your eye that holds the sacred of zam-zam and your walk that lulls the hubbub of hamattan to rest.
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Madiba.
MADIBA
I wasn't there
In the village of Mvezo
And Transkei when gods celebrate Gadle Henry Mphakanyisma.
I wasn't there
When Madiba bow out
Of Nonqaphi Nosekeni's womb with scent of promise
Murmuring the song of emancipation
I wasn't there
When King Ngubengcuka of Thembu people
Strapped the bags and gospel of struggle on the shoulders of Madiba.
I wasn't there
When Madiba, Anton, Tambo, Lembede, Sisulu, and Ashby Mda
Became the panthers' parading the coast of Africa.
I wasn't there
When Madiba shook tigers, lions and kissed their teeth
And when he became the cobra of African forests.
I wasn't there
When Madiba wrestled with apartheid antelopes and elephants.
I wasn't there
When Madiba and his crew
Grappled with the flag of perseverance, justice, tolerance and compassion.
But I read about his heart of a mighty shark
His dedication of a mother
Strength and colour of African leopard.
(C) A. ALI YANTAGWAYE
02: 26pm, Fri 06-12-2013
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