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68 · Dec 2020
The Fall
Kimberly Mungani Dec 2020
Is it maybe the rings of my life have increased?
Or all along my eyes have been creased
With rainbow colored petals that seized
The crevice of a mind sunk, in naivete

Now as I sit at life’s peak, I see
The colors I often viewed were thorns
And age has plucked him,
Youth, who slit my eye.
I see
Now more than ever that time on earth is short

And death has on a wall stuck a calendar
yesterday the woman, next door, fallen
Though her cheeks were heavy and plump.
Today a man in the isle beside, fallen
His milk carton still clutched in hand.
Its tomorrow I fear, and pray.
That the dreadful reaper has not on his date,
The name that my family keeps

For it seems that life is waiting
Or feeble delaying
The inevitable fall
That comes for us all
65 · Jul 2020
The Illusion of youth
Kimberly Mungani Jul 2020
Was It in the ages past?
my memory seems to fade.
When the azure notes of the sun rose,
And with all the strength of small stocky legs
We ran.

Like wind chimes our screams danced in the air.
Rose coloured eyes saw beyond the four walls that enclosed,
If only we can grow grow grow.  
Never did we think that night would fall upon us,

But time a bird hands can never clasp
Brought upon us eternal night,
We have grown grown grown.
A curse, a hex we cast upon ourselves, for
Our feet from under us were pulled,
our dreams lurched from flowery meadows to marshes

You alone were quick to stand,
Deserted our castle in the air
no weapon raised to steal your life
or whispered words of trickery
Abandoned, Cast away, Betrayed,
The meadow that held our wings.

In the murky waters of hope I am chained,
with tired hands to scoop the mire from the waters
But my eyes the traitors they stray.

To the soldier. toiling without a cause,
His shoulders studded with feathers. And
In a moment with despair clutching my throat
I wish
To put down the burden
To join the senseless march

To her cloaked in the white blissful glow,
I shout a cry
But the tongue of those that dwell in the clouds
falls upon your ears.
Unheard.

To Another, pitiful, wretched soul
Shackled by drink and crystals.
Unaware body and mind was long ago thieved,
I turn away.
What a shame it is to rot from within.

This is what the long-awaited youth has brought
The thief that perfectly stole.
One is run into marital bliss,
Another marches forever from dawn till dawn  
A poor soul scurries to the grave, jewels clutched in hand.
And I forever chained to the dreams of a child.
65 · Aug 2020
Dread
Kimberly Mungani Aug 2020
Even as my eyes wither
I do not wish to see them close,
I do not wish for tomorrow
Instead
Let me see the night fade
And the dawn burn the sky
As I steel my soul

— The End —