Poet : Praise Ncube
Sestain : love is freedom

Love is freedom ,
Freedom with respect
Freedom with conscience
Freedom with prudence
Love gives you the best reminiscence
Love is freedom.

The end.

Poet : Praise Ncube

Poem : Death of democracy in Zimbabwe.

Date : 19/01/22

They fought the oppressors,
For them to be oppressors.
The blood
The sweat
And that unity , was all meant to
slaughter and cremate democracy,
FOREVER !!!

Look , she's crying.
Democracy is crying
They have given her capital punishment.
She's facing the guillotine
Surrounded by soldiers with guns
and so ready to ****
Brutal policemen , equipped with button sticks and handcuffs.

Look at the soldiers and the police
,they are hungry
Their kids are being chased out of  classes ,
They have uncleared fees
One of the soldiers lost his mother
yesterday.
How ?
Hospitals are now pigsties
Good doctors and nurses are in the Diaspora.
But they still have courage **** DEMOCRACY.


Let the citizens speak
Refuse to be a state apparatus
African politicians are liars !
Killers !
Corrupt idiots !
They assassinate and eradicate,
prominent speakers.
Prosecution and persecution won't link
But African rulers intertwine them
And that's too harsh for democracy.

And you citizens ,
Don't be too proud to say , I don't do politics
Interested or not
Politics will do you !

Printed in the constitution is ,
FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND EXPRESSION
Translation :
YOU SPEAK , YOU FACE OPPRESSION.

With nothing resolved ,
We still face the polling station : that ballot
We queue ,
and they teach us to draw that X,
By that we suffocate democracy

We think we decide whom we want ,
No , they decide.
We elect , they select.
Voting is not part of democracy,
That's a cancer to it .

She looks helpless
It's sad and weary
But we shall be happy again.
Aluta continua.

Poet : Praise Ncube

Poem : I'm not racist


I'm not racist
I was born to love
Whether you are
Black , white , brown
or Australoid
I respect you , i care about you

I have accepted everyone
But not everyone have accepted me
Just because I'm black
They see my colour as a weapon
They are uncomfortable to have me close

I'm prone to discrimination
And I'm exposed to death
Who said your colour means supremacy?
And who said my colour means slavery?
Why are you so stereotypical and skeptical about me ?


I'm not a brouhaha trigger
I'm a peacemaker
I have a phlegm of oppression
I can't breathe
Racism is for the flummoxed minds
So dowdy and noxious .

Your labels led to self-fulfilling prophecy
Because i had no choice
I am what i am
Because you made me who i am
I was born innocent
And you said I'm violent
Your perception made me one
Is it too late to stop hate or
It's still early ?


I'm not racist . Why you ?

Poet : Praise Ncube (takilla)

Poem :The Imagined Dead End

I faced reality but failed to accept it
Upstairs i had gargantuan expectations
In my prayers i had this tremendous faith
In my heart i knew i would immensely conquer


I saw the walls become stronger
I saw the war becoming longer
Longer than i anticipated
Stronger than i envisaged


I just gave it a thought , this is the dead end !
Alone in my misery , no friend
It's all hazy , i think I'm now blind
Sudden changes barricaded my path

I heard the voice shouting ....
With tears in your eyes
You will see no future
With war in your mind
You will cogitate of no future

I had to go back
I had to redraw the map
It was A  First Attempt In Learning ( FAIL)

Poet :Praise Ncube

Poem :when i look into your eyes

Date: 10/03/21

When i look into eyes
I see the bloom of the flowers
Of the next season
Your eyes peels my depression
down to the ground
I see rain in your eyes
giving life to the dying ocean
I see sunlight in your eyes , sunflowers
praising the moment

I love how u blink
I value it like a wink
You are a drop of ink
that fell on my page of life
I can't erase it ,

I found peace in your eyes
I found a home in your eyes
It's an unblurred vision
In your eyes there's truth
There are no hallucinations
In them i found a class of patience

I can't get over how ,
your cute eyes makes you look.
You set me ablaze ,with just a glance
You allure me , your eyes are magnetic
The more you look at me , the more the ******


Your amethyst eyes give me comfort
Maybe thuswhy i dream of you
Every night .

Poet : Praise Ncube

Poem :  l couldn't resit her beauty

Just a glance , i got intoxicated
Her scent was so sweet , intoxication escalated
From head to toe , i saw nothing mistakenly created
I couldn't resist her beauty

If she was a singer , i would choose to be melomaniac of her music
Every men gazed at her , it all became melodramatic
I braved myself , cleared my throat and moved towards
Dear friends , i couldn't resist her beauty

Astonishingly built like the ruins of Great Zimbabwe
No additions were made , just formal and natural
I really wanted to praise and compliment her in vernacular
No , it didn't suit her
Dear friends,  i couldn't resist her beauty

She smiled , looking at me ,
I looked left , right , centre  and back
To confirm that surely the smile was meant for me
I saw nobody,  maybe i had already gone blind ,
I then smiled back,  and that's how it started.
Dear friends ,i couldn't resist her beauty .