Dellas Chitekwe Poems

Father, when did you become a hero?
How did you become a hero?
When the war flared up
You boarded the first plane to Europe.
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We, the people of Zimbabwe;
the pawns
in a very dangerous game of politics
carelessly played
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That minute...
That brief minute...
That minute suddenly strikes;
When love and hate mean the same
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In this land of sunshine and silence,
Where gold hides deep and bread hides deeper,
We wake up chasing zeros that multiply
Like lies at a political rally.
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