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david mungoshi May 2016
Wanting something too much
Lands you in something of a bind
When it finally is in your hands
You have no idea what to do with it
Having burned out your verve
In your fire of desire and fantasy
david mungoshi May 2016
The morning breeze
Puts the freeze
On bygone grudges
And we start anew
Life rises with us each new day
Though our hearts are the grim graves
Of the hopes and dreams of others
The morning breeze
Tells us ever so gently in whispers sweet
That the world can go on without us
So, like the rivers and the lakes we must flow
Into the cupped hands of the destiny that awaits us
Doing what we must do as matter of course
My prayer to the morning breeze
The breath of life incarnate
Is that it broadcasts to us, news of the future
david mungoshi May 2016
When she spoke
The sound of her voice
Was like the trumpet of divine will
On creation day: soft like magic
Rhythmic like a prayer
Solemn like an incantation
Performative like a judicial sentence
And when she laughed
Her laughter was hypnotic and new
Like the world’s first laugh ever
Her beauty was surreptitious like a dream
It crept in like a mist at the break of day
So I sat  and listened to the melody of her voice
and it felt like I was swathed in the aura of her eyes
david mungoshi May 2016
Endless blue everywhere
below and above
a consuming blueness
Perhaps a preview of eternity
david mungoshi May 2016
Lean old man
Setting sun
And rising moon
A silhouette in the dusk
Ebony cane
And rimless glasses
Accentuate the stoop
These are the lean times
These are the cane years
When fantasy crashes back in
And everything is a tale or a reflection
david mungoshi May 2016
In the first few years
Time ‘s just a word
Thereafter, time’s a hurdle
In the twilight years
Time’s so expendable
Yet so hard to find
david mungoshi May 2016
I took a walk up the incline
And there it was
The starry fable
That  shines from life’s depths
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