Darkness will sure come
Like cloudy shadows on trees,
Wind swings in new hope
(c) Nyonglema
Darkness will sure come
Like cloudy shadows on trees,
Wind swings in new hope
(c) Nyonglema
From far away past where silent orbs
Danced to rhythms of unknown forces forging
Newer niches in cloud then soil then rock,
Smouldering, sizzling silently as time tic toc
Ebbed away, watching life on some lifeless rock surging,
To this day when we dance to the rhythm of Forbes,
The moon and sun in divine love urging
Have danced about the earth: light source upon a rock,
Bringing life to earth when the sullen clock
Calls out the grim owl, vile wolf, and sturdy sturgeon
Through the silent night nobody else disturbs,
Locked in eternal enthralment, watching the dark dungeon
Earth would be but for the sun- or moonlight it absorbs.
Moonlight from sunlight like new groom and virgin
Locked in an embrace older than Eden’s first baulk,
But sealed forever to work on this blue rock;
Bringing light to life on earth at dawn then dusk, merging
Efforts: sun casts its beams on daytime suburbs
But when the earth turns as if to shun its scourging,
That age old mission bound to fail as dusk struck
Finds new life in the passive glitter on that battered rock,
The partner playing its part, for so it was from the first forging.
From far away past, as far back as the silent space orbs,
The sun and moon in sublime love urging.
Have danced about and cast shadows out of this rock
And so it should be, for when one’s gone and you lose the rock
Foundation of the union, then is there but darkness and dirge in
The picture, and the survivor is just a lifeless rock listening for hope in the orbs.
(c)Nyonglema
Picture this: the sun engraving sweat streaks
On your sizzling skin, stinging your eyes
As the humid heat hits your cheeks
Painting pain all over your 37°C-and-rising
Body stuck in the thick traffic like on all weeks
Barely breathing, headed home from the day’s trials.
And a-blaring come crowding the air those sirens:
The horns from cars speeding as if to mock
Our stillness. The cops with walkie-talkies pulling reins
On all who wish the way home were shorter:
“Order!” “wait!” The horns go from shrill – and since
There’s “order” – to barytone peace while we still sweat.
The sun’s still engraving its streaks on me
The heat still heating my sorry cheeks
This metallic cage stuck amongst so many
Others like it, ordered to stop for the glorious horns,
Is starting to feel like a microwave oven to me.
But what can I do? The gods were passing.
(c) Nyonglema
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