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Best Poems Written by Odeline Chigwedere

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Do Not Visit My Grave and Cry

<  >when my body retires and my strength is no more
       when you can not talk to me like we used to
        this when i die
        do not visit my grave and cry

        come and celebrate my life
        sing melodious songs 
        wear your best outfits and share them jokes 
        wear them heels ladies
        just do not visit my grave and cry

        i live a happy life that i love so dearly
        through thick and thin i dare not to drop a tear
        my faith overcomes my fear
        i smile more than i sigh
        celebrate my life dear friends
        do not visit my grave and cry

        remember me for my voice
        my love and kindness
        remember me for my love of wine
        my fun personality and my craziness
        this is how i must be remembered
        just dont come to my grave and cry

        your cries will scare my angels
         your mourning will never bring me back
        your witch hunt will cost you money 
        shoot me some pool please
        do not visit my grave and cry

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My Shadow Can Stay

<  >i am already gone but my shadow can stay
       At least to finish what is left of us.
       To give you the joy of being with me
       when i am already gone
       Although i am still sitting with you at a dinner table and 
       hold your hand and give you this staged romance
       believe me i am miles away.
  
       for the sake of our children my shadow can stay
       to feed your abusive habit 
       name calling and swearing
       i am too ashamed to walk away
       but i am already gone.
       whats left is a shell of something that could have been me
       i have run out of romance but hey 
       do not worry none of this will do you harm
       my shadow can stay.

       i have since replaced you
       i have lost our romance rethyme
       you are so forgotten,i some times question your very existence
       i can not go neither can i stay
       so many times i have lied to you
       i pretended you mattered the most 
       the time has come for our invisible farewells
       but my shadow can stay

       i did it all for  oath i took i mean (till death do us part)
       at least i am keeping my word
       you may never know i left
       i am already gone
       MY SHADOW CAN STAY

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What Makes a Woman a Woman

<  >A child is born and with pride
       they say 'its a girl'
       a baby girl grows to  a little girl
       that little girl grows to be a girl
       then comes a teenage girl
       this beautiful rose blooms desirably to a woman

       have you ever wondered what makes a woman  a woman
       is a woman defined by her past
       can one's child wood complete an identity
       is a woman defined by her life experiences
       i wonder
       is it this invisible warmth this gender turns to have?

       as nature takes its cause 
       child bearing is life threatening game
       still a woman takes an oath to be a woman
        she never wonders what she might have done
        to deserve to be a woman
        woman are for ever proud to be who they are

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One Hit Wonder

<      >it all started in old 
highfields
           in Harare were love 
never sleeps
           romance that burnt 
jabavu drive
           madness that 
manufactured oneness
           yes my Romeo you 
were
           and your Juliet i was
           and so close you 
would hold me
           tie me with the ropes 
of love
           a romantic web i 
could not escape
           you would kiss me so 
passionately
           as if to quench my 
brains away
           in this chariot of love 
we traveled 
           through streets, 
cinemas, parks and clubs
           and one day distance 
came between us
           slowly we grew 
apart, went our separate 
ways
           armed with 
memories and regrets 
           for ever i will long for 
those days
           cherish all the good 
times we had 
           it was a one hit 
wonder
           one hit wonder is all 
it was

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Would It Be Wrong

would it be so wrong
if different makes no difference
if we can look at something foreign
and see it as acceptable
would it be so wrong
if we can pray our different gods
worship in our own ways and still love one another
would it be so terribly wrong
if we give the same value to gay and straight people
if we can  ignore the difference
if we can say its not right, but its okay
would it be so terribly wrong
if the handsome prince from east
can marry beautiful daughters of the west
if we can have a world with no bearers 
if the world can be color blind
and just respect human kind
would it be so
terribly
bad

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An Invisible Woman

  i have accepted my fate
            to this idea of slavery i have given in
            my very existence is imaginary to many
            to a few i am just a product
            bought to be used and reused
            my life depends on them
            them,my lords my owners
            i have no mother,i have no father 
            i have no family
            i am an invisible woman

            some call it human traffic some call it modern slavery
            i call it nothing,i have stopped thinking about it 
            i have been striped off my morals 
            drugs are my life,strangers are my family
            who will fight for my rights
            when lunatics are controlling the world
            these are monsters who see a dollar sign on woman's heads
            the world watches my suffering 
            and still pretend like nothing is happening
            i am an invisible woman
           
            i am not a sex addict neither am i a lover of man
            i have been whipped,i have been kicked,i have been punched 
            i have seen my fellow products die
            i do it for my life or i will be killed 
            people who are meant to protect us are the so called client
            they pay good money for my misery 
            they find pleasure in my pain
            i am an invisible woman

            my heart bleeds with pain
            i have no future,i have no hope
            i am invisible

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Forbiden Love

run away with me my darling Gil
cross the oceans with me
and never look back
lets shame those 
who forbid our love
and forever be mine
you are from the east and i am from the south
your skin is darker than mine
but our hearts races 
the same way
my people name you names
they have an appetite for your blood
and i am thirst for your love
come away with me 
my darling Gil
let my love replace all your pain
let us make passionate love
to nurse our tender
broken hearts

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Wasted Love

<      >you lied to impress
           you impressed to disappoint 
           you built to demolish
           what love do you speak of
           all the way up 
           just for you to go down
           what a shame
           you glittered just to rust
           you rose to fall
           you found me to lose me
           what awaste

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Monster

<     >He roams the streets,day and night 
          he shows no respect to senior citizens
          he bullies woman and children
          he swears to anyone over everything
          disrespect is his middle name
          he is a monster

           he finds joy in terror he plants in people
           screams of woman and children    
            their  fear completes his whole being
            he has no emotions.he has no fear
            he destroys everything he comes in contact with
            
            he has no mother he has no creator 
            he has no shepherd 
            he fell like hail from hell,he rapes and kills
            he humiliates then powerless for his pleasure
            monster of the nation

             he has love of weapons,knives and guns
             he demands and never asks
              he is a man of loose morals
             he is the evil we all hate

             as if he owns the world
              he  roams free in the streets of our nation
              he lost track of yesterday and has no tomorrow

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Do Not Judge Me

take a walk in my shoes
feel my pain
embrace my beliefs
do not crush my dreams
limited are my options
and words fail me
do not judge me
life has presented
not the best choices for me
so I did what I could
as my today trembles
I cling to my faith
till tomorrow comes
Do not judge me
my strength motivates
my tomorrow
my today holds ropes of hope
I will meet my salvation
when time agrees
but until then
DO NOT JUDGE ME