Bring Back My Child
She bares a striking
resemblance to early morning
mist
Pure and innocent her scent
reflects on the faces of those
who devour the finest incense
She has
Coloured the world with her
smile
Captured our souls for a while
The birthmark she carries looks
so much like mine
Bring back my baby
Bring back my child
Oh young sir, have you no soul?
I see dead holes where sockets
once held eyes
I grieve at the sight of your
frown's hardened lines
I saw blinding sweat beads
emerge from your rage ridden
chest
Grotesque, the sight of a rock
where your used to rest
Sir, I know not how your rage
was conceived nor how your
hatred learned to breathe
I assure you, it was not me
Don't punish me please
Give me my niece
Were you not a child?
Did you not tear through the
walls of a young woman's
thighs?
Were you not born into her
warm embrace, cradled,
sheltered one look and she
melted
Why then, is my angel
shackled?
Sir where is your heart?
I too bore a living, breathing
being from these very parts of
mine
My own innermost parts ripped
open when she tore through me,
pushing
As I wailed
Pushing, pushing to claim her
rightful place among the queens
that grace our planet.
What joy!
To have been honoured and
blessed with a fraction of the
Lord's perfect grace
Am I not here to build nations?
Why then Sir, do you deprive
me of her precious face?
Son, have you no sisters?
No teacher?
No mother?
No daughter?
Bring her home, I'm begging
please
So I may teach her to bare sons
just like you
Hard, lifeless structures,
breathing corpses
That exude your heartless
nature
Ones to inherit your venemous
stature
Bring her home please
Let me teach her to bring your
grandsons to their knees
I beg of you,
Let me teach her to bare sons
that will rob you of your own
granddaughters.
Tell me sir,
Have you died?
Has your soul left you?
Do you not hear her cry?
Do you not cringe at her gut-
wrenching screams
Mama, I want to come home!
Mister, I want to go home!
I want to be free
Someone
Save me
Please?
Copyright © Tshego Khumalo | Year Posted 2014
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