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I hope to see that day come
When prophets will tell no more
Of strife foreseen neither doom
Only peace, bliss, and then…
I shall remember no more the tune
Not a chord, not a note, nothing
I'll remember not the song of solitude

Forget the day the song was born
That labor, slow but painfully engulfing
Sending my heart writhing in pain
Calling that sudden golden bronze western horizon
Forcing the sun kiss the great lake unceremoniously
Leaving my heart castrated
There, by the roadside, I cried.

There, by the roadside where I cried
Yet the whole multitude did not perceive
Because a forced smile successfully strangled
And quietly murdered the face of rage and grief
With little carefully painted smiles and giggles
You couldn't help being deceived
That I was not mourning but laughing
Bereaved by my own decease

There, by the roadside
Where death caught up with me
When my lot was there by your side
The incarnate me was being hypnotized
Taken through psychic metamorphosis
So you could continue seeing the old
While the real me was passing on

By the roadside, where I stood
Oblivious of the drawing daladala
I taped and hummed the tune to my song
A tune of desperation and abhorrence
A dirge, darker than a Chonyi Zumo
Mourning the death of my valor,
… “You've missed it son of Kaya,
Sleep well, the pigeon has flown away”

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Baraka Mwambodze Maidha .
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