Tafadzwa Matamba

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The soothing sound of the mbira music,
Oh listen to the hosho as it slices through the night's cool air
With the near full silver moon shining over the burning fire.
Through song and dance we come together.
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A lone white sail boat
Slowly gliding south-wards.
The mournful cry of the seagull,
Soon swallowed into fog's belly
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On Thanksgiving day it shone brightly
And the following day it disappeared;
Lately, the mornings had become cooler and so had the nights;
The squirrels seemed to get busier and hurried,
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How could l ever forget of you?
Oh my dear Forward!
All the days that together we knew!
Several years by have passed,
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I can't see it;
Yet l feel it so strongly,
Hiding behind the clouds!
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When my time has come and l am gone,
When everything about me has been said and done;
Weep then at all not darling for me!
For the sun again l shall not see;
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It is close to noon;
The feeling had disappeared,
Mysteriously like the moon_
Yet here again it has reappeared!
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The books l have read,
The faces l have seen;
The places l have been to_
And the joys that l have known
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My heart cries out for you,
As l recall it all:
The troubles you are swimming in,
And your heart that is sore.
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A night so dark!
The silence is frightening;
I am just but stuck
And have stopped walking.
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From a very deep slumber arise!
To a morning that is cold;
A condition l so much despise,
Yet still l have to be bold_
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A hopeful look in the eyes;
I look forward to a better tomorrow,
Filled with only but joy and no tears;
And there will be none such as all this sorrow.
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The rays will some day shine,
In her lonely life wrapped in misery.
The pain and sorrow will be gone,
It will be a forgotten story.
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I have the urge to be mad;
Mad at any one who dares me
Each time l am down and sad.
When l am sad the world with another eye l see;
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Was it at all to me clear
That l was gonna shed a tear?
Maybe my gut mumbled and l turned a deaf ear;
All l wanted was to hold you near
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Grey skies, rain, fog, cold and damp air;
Darkness that seem to go on forever,
Fall is here and the days are short;
By an hour we have fallen back!
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On a more remote hour_
Far away from my native home,
The moon and the stars for me do shine;
In the blackberry brambles, crickets chant
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O! What a pleasure!
The beauty of mother nature:
The full moon is shining over the ocean;
How so the ocean glows in silver streamlines!
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Semi naked trees in the wind do quiver;
Leaves rain down around trunks one by one_
Alas, the glamour was not to be forever,
All the golden armour they adorned is gone!
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