Closer To Home Poem by VUSI CHRIS VENUS MALALA

When the time comes, I will retire and retreat. I have lived and I have built.
I gave life, I shared it with laughter and love.
Closer to home I had spent my life. Closer to home I sat and I watched my seeds germinate
My kids became adults and they had their own kids
I smiled as I looked on those I raised becoming what I raised them to be.
I moved them closer to home for home is where the heart is.

As I retired; I am going home and leaving all things and everyone closer to home.
As I retire, I slowly closed my eyes and submitted to death... A long awaited "REST"
I leave my wealth, my pride which are all the songs I sang, the scriptures I shared and the children I raised.
Today I leave this world to be with those whose company I dearly missed. Closer to home I leave what I acquired in the harsh years of my being.
Today I embrace the weakness of dying solely because I have been closer to home long enough and now I long being at home
For those I leave behind, "stay closer to home"
Separation is our fate, reunion our hope


SOME OF THE WORDS WERE FROM A MESSAGE SHE LEFT FOR US...
RIP GOGO L.N MALALA(1915-2015)