Niki Nicholas Nkuna Poems

Death will come one day for sure
To knock down a tree in the forest
Out of all the trees but that tree
When it dawned to all people
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Once upon a time love was new to me
My body tender as my mind was puerile
The experience mindboggling and exhilarating
The urge right up in the sky
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So incessant was the flow of cool water from the holy lake
That I believed it will never go dry
I could fill up all buckets of all sizes with no mud but pure water
I even forgot I will ever go thirsty
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Conceived in forbidden circumstances
Born and forsaken under forbidden circumstances
Brought up carelessly, confusing him and the lot
About his origin and future
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I never knew my place will be owned by somebody in my slumber
All the time I was promised by love that my place is secure
In my sluggishness and alertness, I need not worry
Looking at my place I saw nothing sinister except beauty and love,
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Waking up early in the morning
Couldn’t see well but could hear voices far and near
People talking familiarities as usual
I rushed down under the compound rooms
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What we see at a far distance without understanding
Gives hope of what is there to be seen and done
Our dreams of what is sighted and unsighted perpetuate
Imaginations stretched by the vastness of the world
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Like crooked, edgy pebbles and rocks
Rolling in the river stream and tributaries
Smooching each other hurt-less
Knocking the unsteadiness in the run
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Day light everyone looks the same, brushes and soothes one another
The job seeker, the worker, the beggar as well as the criminal
Look the same in the face and attire
Except in the minds and hearts
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Leave a dent
Not a smell
Not the voice
‘Cause it gets driven away by wind
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