Mulemba Ndonji

Broken Hearts

I come to redeem me from the trails I’ve left.
Trails sprinkled with hearts; shredded… shattered… broken… scarred…
Trails with voices echoing curses,
Trails of rivers of tears flowing on flawless cheeks for all the hurt I’ve caused
I come to redeem me with a song; a forgotten song so rusted it cracks…
I come to redeem me from our entwining hurt
I redeem me on keys of reconciliation, on chords of love and strings of trust…
I sing the forgotten song; a song of love that died on our lips…
A song that dried on our hearts; evaporated in the great somewhere and condensed ...