How to start an ode to one’s dear daughter Remains a true protégé to her mighty gist In the beautiful pearls that they are not loyal Brains and poetry are not loyal to one, Yes, they can find abode in any and all,
As the spectre of poetry is haunting Africa, It comes straight from University of Wits, Beautiful like an angel in a lion’s roar She sings and chants in a unique power, Perhaps available in the paragonic muse,
The voice of reason is out above vice Often laziness pays as tribute to virtue As her excellence habitually comes forth The daughter of Africa here heals my heart Her small mandibles crests my soul to bliss Her powerful poetry does marvel to my home,
Vuyelwa is bound above the scent in the name As she puts melanin in the injured chocolate skin To restore Africa back to her pedestal of glory As positive shame in the name devoid of Christ Is effortlessly condemned to ash pit of selfish culture,
To-night she bits you not to **** her blackness Nor to accuse her again of being a black Soweto Out of racial envy to preserve your intolerant self She has promised freedom of space in your bed Freedom of space in your royal cultural bed,
Vuyelwa my daughter your birth was happiness To our poor home in the blackness of Maluleke, Your slender and tall physique; goddess’s poise In her holy ministry of poetized freedom to all Whether white like snow or as black as Africa, Your only anchorage of prettiness to sing my songs Sing my songs in the name of our mother You do Africa proud to manage your gods,
As the spectre of poetry foot loose from nether Is haunting Africa, with art in vogue and reason Singing to Africa what others derided to eerie Africa can too sing in the voices of excellence In lyrics and other all Africa can sing African can sing Vuyelwa can sing Can sing and chant in the voice of the people.