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Retirement Villages

Is their absence not somehow loud 
and ear-deafening? No decent
 retirement villages in Afrika? 
 
Who will write some sort of
face-saving memoirs when those 
who should be  are busybodies?
 
It is one thing to deal with
those who are agile and 
innovative and have a soul.
 
It is another to have to contend
with soulless geriatrics who 
have run out of ideas.
 
They are not short of a sick
 proclivity to play dull antics  
of backwardness and nastiness. 
   
Dealing with the nasty mischief
 of funny faddy daddies is 
an awkward mission and a half.
 
A lizard`s health hazard for they 
esteem not the sanctity
of life and choice.
 
They sit and talk 
nothing with nobody
like nobody`s business.
 
They fool themselves that 
they are still in vogue 
yet they are in denial.
 
They have gone past their
sell-by date and should just  
consider a date with retirement.
 
Where are the retirement villages
in mother Afrika? Where is the fresh air?
Where is the vision? Dilapidated faces. 

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  1. Date: 5/5/2013 9:00:00 AM

    rereading this one. And now I am getting a different impression about what you are saying in it!

  1. Date: 3/28/2013 11:15:00 PM

    a profound message in this one. You are a poet for your country and for your continent.

    Sibanda Avatar Ndaba Sibanda Date: 3/29/2013 3:08:00 AM Block poet from commenting on your poetry

    Andrea, thanks for stopping by.
  1. Date: 2/5/2013 5:12:00 AM

    this is truly wonderful poetry at its best,,, such truth in all your words Ndaba, and believe me you speak for so many,, all over the world..

    Sibanda Avatar Ndaba Sibanda Date: 2/5/2013 6:51:00 AM Block poet from commenting on your poetry

    Thanks.