Yesterday,
Your narrative beauty was well weaved,
Like the knitting of the bride’s hair.
Saintly sweet sight with no sore,
Heart in you grows gladness.
Your narrative beauty was well weaved,
Like the marching of ants after the rain,
Love, peace, orderliness, culture, boldness…
Lived before the wild wind.
Your narrative beauty was well weaved,
Like the peaceful steps of the Nile,
Of rich gifted greenness…
Too priceless.
Your narrative beauty was well weaved,
Tall like the great wall of Zimbabwe,
Resourceful like the palm wine tree,
Gorgeous like the pyramid of Egypt.
Today:
Bad beauty you’re clothed,
Joy lives only in the wind
Your Sun dozes like a drunkard.
Will our world again be lit?
In these seeds tomorrow smiles
Only must we water many miles.
This Poem was published in the July 2022 edition of the WSA magazine. Please click here to download.
Read – Of Lines and Patterns – A Poem by Immaculate Halla, Tanzania
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