Venice masks

Sunday 1 January 2017

A war-torn wife - Chenjerai Hove

This war!
I am tired
of a husband who never sleeps
guarding the home or on call-up,
never sleeping!

Maybe inside him he says
‘I am tired of a wife
who never dies
so I could stop guarding’.

Chenjerai Hove (1956 – 2015) Zimbabwe
Source: Poets of the World

3 comments:

  1. thank you for this

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  2. Wow. It's essential. Down to its essence & necessary.

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  3. Understanding towards the tittle, what you think it means

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