Yesterday Poem by Lundi Ncuthu

Yesterday
The world smiled
Our paths filled with light
Life was eased
Children on the merry go round
round and round it goes
one screamed
"The world is turning around! "
no one succoured

It was yesterday
When the whole family shared a meal
The laughter, the old life stories
happiness seen in the eyes
brothers serving brotherhood and
so were sisters in sisterhood

Yesterday
Death was miles away
The pastures were greener
No soul was imprisoned
No life was burdened
All was simply portrayed
Love was a glue in between
Our hearts, all was yesterday

Yesterday
All ended when the sunset
Darkness rose from the mist
We laid down with hope for better tomorrow
In the morning
The sun did not come up
It was foggy in mountains
Every soul troubled
All started from the child on the merry-go-round
But no one succoured

Now our paths filled with undergrowth
not lay trodden black
Our hearts are weary
Death as a predator preying on life
we dwell in sorrows
Constant pains
O love has swerved to lust

No rain falls
Lands arid and dusty
O what went wrong?
Each day we cry
Tears fall as cascades
The memory of yesterday
Cuts deeper in our hearts
We kill each other
We dwell in fear
If someone would tear
Our families apart

Despite the flow of tears
Suffering is never ceased
Yet we smile hoping that one day
love will prevail
Our sorrows will melt
Our hearts will sooth
Our paths shall enlighten
Death be no more
No disease will feed on us
No pain will pledge loyalty to death
all was yesterday
When a smile shone as stars in the sky
Yesterday all was there

When the sun sets
Mothers singing lullaby
Calming the breeze
O their love envies not
It doesn't change as this world does
we all on the line, awaiting death
O our loved ones tears
Their innocent caressing hearts
This is life, round and round it goes
our hopes are floating in vanity
lost in sentimental beliefs
that someday it'll all fade