What will you say
When you see
Someone in the groove
Driking some guava
Juice?
How will you feel
When you find
The grave Of your lost
Relative under the guava
Tree?
How will you Look,
When a big black
And white
Goat eating
Dry grass
At the grave yard
Of saint
Georges?
How will you guess,
When the big gaz
Pipe lines which
Pass in the seas
Block?
What will you sing,
When some racists
Antagonists, haters
Xenophobics, gangs,
Crooks, liars
Prostitutes
Terrorists
Welcome
Christ Jesus
As their Lord
And
Saviour ?
May 03/2023
By Alfonso Warally Ngengethe
Mussabwa Chris
Tent pegs, burnt legs
Sun cream, ice cream
Swimming trunks, squashed lunch
Peeling tum, after sun.
Dusty feet, collapsing seat
Folding table, electric cable,
Sleeping pods, fishing rods
Guide ropes foreign notes.
Ground sheet, birds tweet.
Wind break, tent shake
Top box midnight fox
Sweeping floor, rubbish torn
Barbecue, dodgy loo,
Gritty toes, runny nose
Flip flops dirty tops
Backpack rucksack
Gas ring, bee sting
Bug spray, all day
Camping Gaz, not last
Airbed enough said
Glowstick picnic
Washing up, worst luck
Beard grown, photos shown
Journey home, money blown
Hate is lack of love, is thick,
dense, almost stone ...
It's an icy mountain
in the chest of the person who carries it ...
Love is soft, tenuous,
almost cloud ... almost
gaz of happiness in laughter
of those who utilize it ...!
Gaz is a class 4.0 wheelchair basketball player,
He saw a roadshow when he was almost a teen,
From the UK Wheelchair Basketball Association,
Having become an amputee aged ten and keen.
He competed as a young teen, represented GB,
He’s originally from Pakistan but moved to Ealing,
And he won two golds and one silver immediately,
And so was chosen for the team for turkey, beaming.
In Beijing he was a reserve but now lived in Italy,
To play for their Porto Torres agile wheelchair team,
And in 2010 at the World Basketball Championship,
In Birmingham, his team placed 5th, cool and mean.
In 2011 Gaz went to the European Championships,
Which were in Nazareth, that renown town in Israel,
And here the GB team won gold to boast in tone,
So that Gaz is now going to Rio, a victory to nail.
Yar geldi yansidi baharimi gonlume.
Yar umit dagi tasi deldi yurudu evrene.
Tutsak olsa da umide hayatim bitmeyen isyanim
Sarmasiklar tirmanir girdaplari deler de gecer
Kim soyler ki vakit cok gec.
Yuruduk daglari deldik, yuruduk ovalarin baharina.
Yar tutma sevgimi anindacim kovan yasadigim evren.
Yar dusum dogacak hayatin cigina
Yurudukce isiltili zaman koprusunde
Bulutlar eridi yansidi delindi gunesin makberi….
Gaz ve titresim devsirdi evreni sessiz.
Bulutlar inceldi gunesin atesi yansidi tenime.
Saklanmisken yaylara yogurdum tutmadi maya.
Yar dusum dogacak hayatin umudu yurudu bilinmeyen dunyalara
Bulutlar eridi yansidi gunesin makberi….