Godiah Imbukuleh Poems

Loving is so short
Forgetting so long
But
Better to have loved and lost
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Dull moments of ecstasy and fantasy
Reverberating with stifled silence
A journey into the wonderland
A voyage into the desert of reality
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In the early days—happy days
Surrounded by love and curiosity
Surrounded by the smell of soil and dust
We were happy, free and natural
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On the way home
I reminisce years back, riding through this town
Looking for a job, a man with an ambition
The heat is rising, the dust is rising
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When we visited the park recently
Many people were eager to see him
But I wasn't among them
I wanted to feel and see power.
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The Big Speech—by Godiah Rocky Imbukuleh

The vote was drawing close, the voters closer
Comrades eagerly waiting for the speeches
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We would often talk about the text
Amidst light-hearted moments of desperation
And we would quote the preacher
"The race is not to the swift
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His face was on front pages of all dailies
The latest receiver of the Nobel Prize
The holy grail of academics
The face smiling defiantly
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It is OK

It's ok to accept your weaknesses
That you've made a mistake
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Soon, we will all die
and leave our little wealth
to our wives and husbands
or our kids and parents
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