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Odeline Chigwedere Poem
< >when my body retires and my strength is no more
when you can not talk to me like we used to
this when i die
do not visit my grave and cry
come and celebrate my life
sing melodious songs
wear your best outfits and share them jokes
wear them heels ladies
just do not visit my grave and cry
i live a happy life that i love so dearly
through thick and thin i dare not to drop a tear
my faith overcomes my fear
i smile more than i sigh
celebrate my life dear friends
do not visit my grave and cry
remember me for my voice
my love and kindness
remember me for my love of wine
my fun personality and my craziness
this is how i must be remembered
just dont come to my grave and cry
your cries will scare my angels
your mourning will never bring me back
your witch hunt will cost you money
shoot me some pool please
do not visit my grave and cry
Copyright © Odeline Chigwedere | Year Posted 2012
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< >i am already gone but my shadow can stay
At least to finish what is left of us.
To give you the joy of being with me
when i am already gone
Although i am still sitting with you at a dinner table and
hold your hand and give you this staged romance
believe me i am miles away.
for the sake of our children my shadow can stay
to feed your abusive habit
name calling and swearing
i am too ashamed to walk away
but i am already gone.
whats left is a shell of something that could have been me
i have run out of romance but hey
do not worry none of this will do you harm
my shadow can stay.
i have since replaced you
i have lost our romance rethyme
you are so forgotten,i some times question your very existence
i can not go neither can i stay
so many times i have lied to you
i pretended you mattered the most
the time has come for our invisible farewells
but my shadow can stay
i did it all for oath i took i mean (till death do us part)
at least i am keeping my word
you may never know i left
i am already gone
MY SHADOW CAN STAY
Copyright © Odeline Chigwedere | Year Posted 2012
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< >A child is born and with pride
they say 'its a girl'
a baby girl grows to a little girl
that little girl grows to be a girl
then comes a teenage girl
this beautiful rose blooms desirably to a woman
have you ever wondered what makes a woman a woman
is a woman defined by her past
can one's child wood complete an identity
is a woman defined by her life experiences
i wonder
is it this invisible warmth this gender turns to have?
as nature takes its cause
child bearing is life threatening game
still a woman takes an oath to be a woman
she never wonders what she might have done
to deserve to be a woman
woman are for ever proud to be who they are
Copyright © Odeline Chigwedere | Year Posted 2012
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< >it all started in old
highfields
in Harare were love
never sleeps
romance that burnt
jabavu drive
madness that
manufactured oneness
yes my Romeo you
were
and your Juliet i was
and so close you
would hold me
tie me with the ropes
of love
a romantic web i
could not escape
you would kiss me so
passionately
as if to quench my
brains away
in this chariot of love
we traveled
through streets,
cinemas, parks and clubs
and one day distance
came between us
slowly we grew
apart, went our separate
ways
armed with
memories and regrets
for ever i will long for
those days
cherish all the good
times we had
it was a one hit
wonder
one hit wonder is all
it was
Copyright © Odeline Chigwedere | Year Posted 2012
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would it be so wrong
if different makes no difference
if we can look at something foreign
and see it as acceptable
would it be so wrong
if we can pray our different gods
worship in our own ways and still love one another
would it be so terribly wrong
if we give the same value to gay and straight people
if we can ignore the difference
if we can say its not right, but its okay
would it be so terribly wrong
if the handsome prince from east
can marry beautiful daughters of the west
if we can have a world with no bearers
if the world can be color blind
and just respect human kind
would it be so
terribly
bad
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< >you lied to impress
you impressed to disappoint
you built to demolish
what love do you speak of
all the way up
just for you to go down
what a shame
you glittered just to rust
you rose to fall
you found me to lose me
what awaste
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< >He roams the streets,day and night
he shows no respect to senior citizens
he bullies woman and children
he swears to anyone over everything
disrespect is his middle name
he is a monster
he finds joy in terror he plants in people
screams of woman and children
their fear completes his whole being
he has no emotions.he has no fear
he destroys everything he comes in contact with
he has no mother he has no creator
he has no shepherd
he fell like hail from hell,he rapes and kills
he humiliates then powerless for his pleasure
monster of the nation
he has love of weapons,knives and guns
he demands and never asks
he is a man of loose morals
he is the evil we all hate
as if he owns the world
he roams free in the streets of our nation
he lost track of yesterday and has no tomorrow
Copyright © Odeline Chigwedere | Year Posted 2012
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< > My people in villages and surbabs
men and woman of all races sizes and shapes
from different back grounds and different life style
but one and only one common denominator
JIKINYA
Jikinya,a joyful dance that expresses happiness
joy and greatfulness
good times and memories that last a life time
jikinya my people jikinya
jikinya for a new life,jikinya for the rains
for every God given gift and blessing
jikinya
skies are covered with dust
in our rich undiluted mother tongue we sing
men thunder in deep voices
songs with massages that lingers
jikinya my people jikinya>
the grounds we dance up on
will never be barren
the rains will fall up on it and good grains will be ours
shouts and praises to the pure dance
a dance that liberates our spirits and ignites our bodies
filled with joy we explode
jikinya my people jikinya
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i have accepted my fate
to this idea of slavery i have given in
my very existence is imaginary to many
to a few i am just a product
bought to be used and reused
my life depends on them
them,my lords my owners
i have no mother,i have no father
i have no family
i am an invisible woman
some call it human traffic some call it modern slavery
i call it nothing,i have stopped thinking about it
i have been striped off my morals
drugs are my life,strangers are my family
who will fight for my rights
when lunatics are controlling the world
these are monsters who see a dollar sign on woman's heads
the world watches my suffering
and still pretend like nothing is happening
i am an invisible woman
i am not a sex addict neither am i a lover of man
i have been whipped,i have been kicked,i have been punched
i have seen my fellow products die
i do it for my life or i will be killed
people who are meant to protect us are the so called client
they pay good money for my misery
they find pleasure in my pain
i am an invisible woman
my heart bleeds with pain
i have no future,i have no hope
i am invisible
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run away with me my darling Gil
cross the oceans with me
and never look back
lets shame those
who forbid our love
and forever be mine
you are from the east and i am from the south
your skin is darker than mine
but our hearts races
the same way
my people name you names
they have an appetite for your blood
and i am thirst for your love
come away with me
my darling Gil
let my love replace all your pain
let us make passionate love
to nurse our tender
broken hearts
Copyright © Odeline Chigwedere | Year Posted 2014
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