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Decision Masingi Poem
Once I was a married somebody,
A bachelor you were,
I called you my pal,
For I believed you were,
You knew all my secrets,
For I thought you were trustworthy.
My brother used to threaten to kill me,
And you knew of it as a pal,
Overnight you sent thugs to shoot me dead,
Knowing fully-well that everyone would point
Fingers at my one and only brother,
Accusing him of having killed me,
By so doing, you had torn my family apart.
Where did I go wrong?
To such an extent that I deserved to die,
Afterwards, after my burial,
You seduced my wife and married her,
“Your husband was much more
Like a brother to me”
Is just what you said, when you propose
My wife that you made your own,
But, why then did you kill someone who
Was much more like a brother to you?
You loved my wife and hated my son,
Why pal?
Why didn’t you let me be to love them both?
To get rid of my son you tried,
However, you failed,
Why didn’t you let me be to look after him?
It is unbearable to me that,
You also cheated on my wife,
Why pal?
Why didn’t you let me be to love her?
And her alone.
Maybe you took my life for better reasons
I thought,
Realize, I did that, I lost my life
Because of my wife,
Why then didn’t you marry your own?
And for the money you knew I had,
Why didn’t you work hard to get rich also?
Have you forgotten that,
All men must sweat to have the best in this life?
Why didn’t you let me be pal?
Just to enjoy what I worked hard for,
Rest in peace, they wrote on my tombstone,
How is that possible?
For, I know not the taste of peace,
Day and night my soul cries,
When I recollect how you fooled me,
You called yourself my friend while
You were nothing rather than a foe to me,
But, you should have let me be,
My worst enemy.
Copyright © Decision Masingi | Year Posted 2015
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Decision Masingi Poem
A well-known saying that states
The truth is a proverb,
Obedience is better than sacrifices,
A proverb makes it known by all,
Paying attention when you are corrected
Is a sign of wisdom,
Stupidity it is,
To overrule corrections.
Open thy eyes and thy ears,
To see the evident matter that troubles
The entire world,
For trouble, troubles us all,
Open thy ears to hear the non-hearsay
But, rather, the truth alone,
The truth about the havoc in this life,
The havoc that is absolutely out of hand.
Lo, besides thee with thy eyes,
A lad is now a father,
A lass a mother,
Parents are taking care of a child,
That which is taking care of a child
Of another child,
Why?
Evident it is that,
Because teenage pregnancy is on duty.
Always be within the sound of the world’s news,
It is then that,
You will hear that,
A lad raped a woman,
A woman old enough to be his ancestor,
You will hear of the legal killers,
The girls that kill during daylight,
For they abort their innocent unborn babies,
No, this is extremely weird,
What is the world turning into?
For today the world is full,
Full of aimless young ones,
Education to them is like a monster,
They avoid going to school
The way Christians avoid the pit of hell,
Within them lies no bright future,
For, as for the girls,
Their priority number one is to
Turn themselves into Jezebels,
And boys into Casanovas.
Young ones,
You my siblings I mean,
There is a bright light somewhere they say,
Allow it not to peter out before you get to it,
For the bright light represent nothing
Rather than the great bright future ahead of you,
Always bear in mind that,
The battle is not to the swift
Or the battle to the strong,
Nor does food come to the wise,
Or wealth to the brilliant,
Or favor to the learned,
However, time and chance happen to all
Therefore, never look down upon yourself,
All things are possible,
You can do it, only if you believe you can,
Never do anything off the top of your head,
But, think twice before taking any single step,
Know yourself and contribute not to
Teenage pregnancy and crime,
Abstain from taking drugs,
For they will do you no good.
Nevertheless,
Rejoice, O young somebody in thy youth,
And let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth,
And walk in the ways of thine heart,
And in the sight of thine eyes,
But know thou,
That, for all these things God will bring
Thee into judgement.
Copyright © Decision Masingi | Year Posted 2017
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