![]() And the gods understood loveA Poem by Mufaro Kudakwashe Joseph Mangono
He was a murderer of hallucinations He distorted the wise man’s stipulations Inevitably his life had a remarkable emptiness And iron could not destroy his hardness He kissed, he loved but he died He then became part of what he lied Sorry was the name of his household And no one knew if he was a mouse or a toad But surprisingly the gods understood love
Somewhere a wind roared Only taking command from its lord It produced a sound so crisp That it scared the borders it had to leap It started from nowhere But was heading somewhere Everyday it practices the ideology of waving Before it fulfills a prophecy of fading And the gods tried to understand love
Two strangers met in a park And they confessed it was all luck An hour later they were in love And made up shapes they could not carve But a day later their love was starving Only fate knew what happened to their loving They could have married in a chapel And have happiness they could marvel And the gods could not understand love
The morning sun rose As if it was somehow by force Birds sang for the sun But winds sang for fun The gods then became aware Of the things they made rare They cried out aloud And only their creation knew they were proud And the gods understood love.
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