#ThursPoetry: Makomborero Nhau – Work for the dream

#ThursPoetry is back this week, in partnership with our friends at Gourd of Consciousness, for brand new Zimbabwean original poems.

Makomborero Nhau is a lady of 18 years who was born on 12 November 2003. She grew up at a farm and had her primary education at a boarding school called Sinoia Primary in Chinhoyi. Makomborero is on the road to finishing her O’level at Roosevelt Girls High. She lives with her mother and brother in Eastlea Harare. When it comes to personality, she is an introvert with an open heart who love writing and art.

POEM
Title: Work for the dream

I don’t know how
Like how
I can talk to the current youths

I don’t know
How to wake them up
From this sleep so deep

All they dream of is drip
Why not face reality and mound the future
And consummate the puzzled earth

I don’t know
How I can tell them that instant doesn’t last long

I don’t know
How I can tell them
That before joy there is endurance

I don’t know
How I can prove to them
That one mistake doesn’t mean life is over

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