There must be away

I am stuck in the belly of solitude
i have been writing the same rhyme
from time to time

My pen can't stop bleeding
Many years of pain in vain
my heart is hanging

i want to escape this despair
is there a repair shop for my soul?
torn, tormented, i cannot bare

but there must be a way
out of this jungle of fierce words
my soul is weary

Today i die

Today I die
I cease to breathe your oxygen
I cease to be the alpha and omega of your happiness

Today I die
I step out from your box of seclusion
I walk out to my freedom

Today I die
I die to love life
And live when I die

Today I die
I escape to my redemption
Today I am free to be myself.

This skin

This skin is a curse
It’s a burden of untold sins
At home and elsewhere
It comes not without prejudice

I am dying under this skin
Silently aspiring to be free
But it remains a dream
Lost where time cannot reach

How can I be free?
From the curse of this skin
Without a new skin
Maybe when my time is done
I will ascent with a new skin

written after reading Barack Obama: Dreams
from my father

Family Breakdown

When does a family collapse and die?
Is it when bricks conspire to melt?
And crumble down the house

Or is it when dreams that held us
Silently disconnect and dismantle

Is it when a touch, once so brotherly
Unnoticed faint and vanish
Into the vistas of despair

Or is when we are drawn to ourselves
And stop talking like we used to

When does a family break down?
Is it when this or that happens?
Or is it when it simply breakdown.

Shango vho dzhia

Shango lashu
Makhuwa vho dzhia
Ra sala ri mabunyu
ro fara muya, shango lo enda

Na ni do ri ni naa?
Musi Nwali atshi vhudzisa
He na isa hone shango?
Le nga mbilu tshena ani fha.

Ndi lumbile ndi mbila ya Nevondo
Vhanwe vhe ho penya zwivhoni
Vhanwe vhe ndi ndala ya mashona
hone shango loya?

Naasi ri badela risa fhedzi
Lenelia le nwali arifha nga fhedzi
Naasi ri dzula ri sa dzulisei
Ngau shango vho dzhia

Vhanwe vha tshi vhuya

Musi vhusiku ha swiswi bodobodo!
vhu tshi tsira shango;
Na nne ndiima mikotoni,
magondoni othe nda lilala
ndo tulutshelwa iwe mbilu yanga
dzanga le nda fhiwa
Nwali nga dzawe a tsikela

Musi vhanwe vha tshi vhuya
dada li tshi vho adamela
ndi u toda magudani a vhafhiri
A thiu wani athi u vhoni
magondo e ndia pfumelwa
mikoto ye ndi bva vhubvo
na thanzi yazwo ya bala

Dzuvha

Dzuvha nwananga
Naho nda khuya
langa gondo la fadalala
Nne, ndi naiwe nwanaga

Naho vhutshilo sa gole
ha swifhala ha nzwinzwimala
Vha no da vha tshi vho tuwa
Dzuvha u mbiluni yanga

Ndi na iwe u swika vhuhwini
hu ne nda shandulwa vhadzimu
yanga mbilu yo dala iwe
dzofha la vhuvha hanga

Dzuvha nwananga
Penya u penyelele sa naledzi masase
Na musi nne ndi tshivho swifhalelwa
U vhe tshedza tsha mbilu yanga