Dellas Chitekwe Poems

In this country
You need a miracle
To drink a milk-less cup of tea
And eat a few slices of bread;
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We, the people of Zimbabwe;
the pawns
in a very dangerous game of politics
carelessly played
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Father, when did you become a hero?
How did you become a hero?
When the war flared up
You boarded the first plane to England
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Two sides of a coin
Several versions to a scandal.

He said...
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That minute,
That brief minute,
That minute suddenly strikes;
When love and hate mean the same
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Up on the edge of a cliff
I think of flying
Up into the clouds
Without wings, of course.
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This is the place
Where you eventually succumb
To the expensive but shortlived
Pleasures of a whore.
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We got rid of an old terrier
Because it was toothless
And could no longer hunt vermin.
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