This Smokig Heart-Kumoyo Kwitukha Translated
Attention! Sit squarely listen keenly, clear your ears
Face on the sun your ears, to melt the tar
Having melted it, to make lighter your ears
Listen now, listen again
I keep begging you, I kneel I kneel
We don’t lack back home, we have them
For your facial beauty, glitters and smiles
You made my heart melt
As I met you, fetching firewood
Your gap alone to show, I sweat cold
You alone mother’s daughter, the way I greeted?
Guys how are you? You laughed me I turned lighter
As you bounced your neck rhythmically, my heart followed rhythmically
As you answered the school teacher, I thought was me
As you accepted my handshake, to me just dreams
Just my thoughts
When inside your dress, the red one with a heart
That your father brought from Uganda, I hang around your home
Even though you remain indoors
You are watched carefully, so don’t you come out
Attention! Sister heart kills me, what is there in you?
Refuse me not lest I crush, my heart you punish
As you bounce like a peacock, bouncing your neck
What do you expect, me to do?
Lusabeti listen sister, listen I beg you
Chief’s daughter not my remedy, whatever is in you
Even if you lack, don’t discover in her
Don’t tense sister, run come to sooth you I long
On shores I land Lusabeti, our kraal is full
I will follow your father’s demand, to receive his beauty
My peacock to give, with a surprising gap
This smoking heart, you will have sprinkled cool!
Copyright © Moses Kisiang'Ani Makhakha | Year Posted 2018
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