Matthew Ndarimani Poems

My own little star - now in flight
And the night's skies have never known a brighter light
It is the sweet scented miracle of new life.
Oh, how adorable he is, my own little shadow
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After crying for ice cream before dinner, a little girl got so upset that she told her unmoved mother that she would never take a bath again.

A teenage boy looked on as they shoved his big brother's corpse into a metal coffin - tears just filled his eyes.
A desperate husband got down on his aching knees, trying to make his wife understand why he had to quit his job, but the wife, no, she didn't stop packing.
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