Masava
Masava
(Soil=Umhlaba)
Between these many a rolling mountain
Foundation let me lay; let me maintain....
From old self let the umbilical code fall
Let my antenatal ignorance yield thrall-
Underneath this soil with loam so fertile
(No inanimate rock may remain sterile)
Seeds let me sow; toil mutely endure...
Insipid morn to rupture with new verdure!
**Masava is pun for Mashava; meaning soil in Shangaan.
(Great Zimbabwe University, Chemberi Students’ Residence; No. C 8/2- 14th Feb’ 2014)
JM
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