The Grand Canyon
Dedicated to my late Grandma
For Silent One's When a man loves a woman (man only contest)
The Grand Canyon
Through the cracks besides her eyes
A golden age that required tenacity
In the bags under her fading vision
A lifetime of the tears she’s wept
For dreams she could never fulfil
To endure all the that life inundated
Her unprepared young mother’s mind
Thrust so far into foreign lands
Her fate resting in callous hands
She rests having left an endearing mark
In all her children and children’s children
And we walk as giants for she too was one
Insignificant as her life might have seemed
She’s all the things we’ve come to know
And love about our now dying culture
And the only memory we have about our past
When a woman couldn’t speak her mind
Oh how the world of men was once so blind
Now we’re in awe of her emptied belly
That carried us through the darkest valley
09-06-2015
Copyright © Thabang Ngoma | Year Posted 2015
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