"magodo" poems
Ineffable,I'm almost petrified
watching you blossom into a fetching young
maiden
Would it be so selfish of me to want to keep you
all to myself
And shield you from this sometimes painful world?
woebegone yet at times a place of kindness
though that be untoward
Truth be told
you are only mine erstwhile
a storm brews in thy heart
the same heart that feels summery to the
sound of your mellifluous giggles and laughter
Its almost terrifying how you take after me
the same dreamy eyes,mountainous ambition
and a passion inexorable
it wouldn't be so wrong to re - live my youth
through your eyes
as you brace yourself for your maiden voyage
into the untamed cosmos
For everything there's a season
dare throw caution to the wind and let you be
praying what little I have instilled in you will be
light in times of darkness
or else experience be the best tutor.
Catherine Magodo Mutukwa 2016
Mar 7, 2016
Mar 7, 2016 at 3:42 AM UTC
Sit me next to her beneath
the same dark cloud
that hovers and fulminates,
grey and gloom.
Let me feel the pain and aches
of weary bones in a putrid soul,
drench me in echoes of groans
and moans
of a body that writhes and twists in
violent jerks
rejecting the very life pined over
and prayed for.
The windows to her being
a misty-haze, downcast,
extirpating what zeal is left
forever longing for that one day
when feeling will be extrinsic.
They huddle beside her,craving
her touch,
once warm and soothing
now flaccid and frosty,
as if they too, sense their mother's
demise creeping nearer to thee,
savoring each moment as if it were
last.
The hushed whispers of a voice broken,
tormented by watchful eyes of thy fruit
of the womb,
pleading and begging for her
perpetual breath lest they be mother-less.
Let me wail with her
when she weeps for her children
when she curses the past and admonishes
the future depriving her,her heart's
importune,
allow me to impale her clattered mind,
pick through her thoughts to understand
and not judge.
On her death bed,discouraged
she waits,
only fate can take away...
By Catherine Magodo Mutukwaa
Mar 7, 2016
Mar 7, 2016 at 12:00 AM UTC
Ineffable,I'm almost petrified
watching you blossom into a fetching young
maiden
Would it be so selfish of me to want to keep you
all to myself
And shield you from this sometimes painful
world?
woebegone yet at times a place of
kindness
though that be untoward
Truth be told
you are only mine erstwhile
a storm brews in thy heart
the same heart that feels summery to the
sound of your mellifluous giggles and laughter
Its almost terrifying how you take after me
the same dreamy eyes,mountainous ambition
and a passion inexorable
it wouldn't be so wrong to re - live my youth
through your eyes
as you brace yourself for your maiden voyage
into the untamed cosmos
For everything there's a season
dare throw caution to the wind and let you be
praying what little I have instilled in you will be
light in times of darkness
or else experience be the best tutor.
Catherine Magodo Mutukwa 2016
Mar 7, 2016
Mar 7, 2016 at 3:40 AM UTC