I stand here by your grave without tears
Though my heavy heart is a shattered debris
I have no flowers to place over your eternal bed
No will to sing those songs that died when you died
I am here only to remind you
Dunga! Dunga!! Dunga!!!
Son of Atandi
Thrice I call you
Turn awhile from your dance of immortality
Stare at humanity from your cloudy palace
Do not roam the parches of the elusive realm
You don't belong there
Your mother sits by her hearth every morning
Old, broken and childless
Her sagging head bowed in defeat
Atandi, your father longs to be with his father too
For no man has suffered a greater woe
Than a man who knows the grave of his children
So join not in the frenzy dance of the dead
Do not sing in the solemn assembly of the ghost yet
Come back to the tears of your parents
Of your friends and loved ones
Bring justice to the pains of our troubles
Avenge your death
O Dunga!
Son of Atandi
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3 Comments
I think I am like Tama... Tears of loosing someone...
ReplyDeleteI enjoy your write ups ... They feel real
Nice piece
ReplyDeleteKeep the pen writing
Beautiful wisdom is found Interwoven in this verse.
ReplyDeleteIt is not for any to know the grief of another
Only our own sorrow
Only our own inability to sing
Only our own desperation for some future or tomorrow
Which we yearn in our emptiness for peace to bring