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Kukhu Naliaka

Kukhu Naliaka today, I must echo your heroine For your successful motherhood, you carried a dozen Despite the fact say, your belly needed food Truly you sacrificed full, to carry my father then While many thought of, bread blue band and tea My dad you fed of, products of your starves Grandmother on your back, him as you weeded fee Out of many you fought, to milk for your calves The story the story, strong after he left her I thought she'd fail, for a lover you lost In Seventies you're sorry, but still a wrestler Kukhu Naliaka not frail, still on and most In your old age I echo, the legacy of your tummy For not carrying food, but good for generation And the way you took, to teach us the manners Of value you stood, firm as vice your negation Your long-term dress you say, a chest could hole For you gave value to need, and prioritized the wants All that bought bicycles, long in the red earth sole Ahsante for you brought, many to marry our mums I pray shall you stay, to realize your dream The most expensive shoe, for a woman you're true Your epoch lacked slay queens, my aunts so true Kukhu Naliaka your foe, shall age and go thro'

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Date: 5/18/2018 8:53:00 PM
Falling quickly, incapacitated, locked up in the prison of your heart. Fine writing.
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Date: 5/18/2018 8:51:00 PM
Falling quickly, incapacitated, locked up in the prison of your heart. Fine writing.
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Date: 5/18/2018 8:48:00 PM
no food in your mouth, no food in the fridge. system kids. I think poetry is a wonderful venue for you to get some feelings out into the world to teach others.
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Moses Kisiang'Ani Makhakha
Date: 5/20/2018 5:18:00 AM
I seem to enjoy the comment more than a poem itself. Thanks great

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