Davie Kamwanga Poet Epic

Lilongwe bridge

Eyes witness it impoverished in machine majestically 
Old age ruined his bones, many sung the chorus 
Historians manifest only a coin maneuver his existence 

A passage for traders wheeling around his dusty skeletons 
In scorching sun, bullying foots electrifying in his thirsty pedals 
A thousand tarmac roads, marrying to his mouth vows 

Standing for decades, aging with unburied marks 
Sheltering under his arms, those side looked creatures 
For years it engulfed thousand smiles, even cries 

Seeing muscular town mongers milking his bellies  
Even authorities proofed his tongue shield scratching scholars 
Like a mathematician making love to scratch papers 

Hastily to impregnate answers 
Bomb sited the magnificent ‘Lilongwe’ bridge 
You’ll be missed legendary canal, which is no more

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Alison A Smith October 8, 2026 at 5:45 AM The three-line stanzas give this elegy a steady rhythm, while the bridge’s personification makes its destruction feel like the loss of a living elder. Images of traders, shelter, smiles and cries movingly evoke its place in the community’s shared history.