The Village Poem by Charl JF Cilliers

The Village



Warm as the sun they sit,
the day a murmur of tradition:

Kom sit by my, seun.

He has forgotten when
in the storm he saw God
gnarled as his face, old as the waves.

I have been home since then,
watched the storm over the sea

stood by them warm as the sod
safe as the stones

remembered the face of the waves:

O seuntjie, kom sit by my…

Thursday, October 15, 2015
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Charl JF Cilliers

Charl JF Cilliers

Cape Town, South Africa
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