#ThursPoetry: These Fatherless sons – An Ode of Despair!

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

Tevin Ntobeko Ndimande is a 22 year old unpublished writer from Bulawayo who characterises in writing poetry and fictional stories, both short stories and novels. His favourite subjects are mostly love, war, despair, hope and humour. Tevin is a member of Gourd of Consciousness Poetry, currently he has a few writings which have not been published yet some of which he has been working over for the past three years. Ndimande is currently finishing a Bachelor of Science Honors degree in Agricultural Economics and Development with Midlands State University. He concedes to himself that education had him doing agriculture but passion had him writing poems and novels. Ndimande, writes mostly in English but is soon to adopt to his indigenous language Ndebele after realising the richness of its words and also after realising that one can write a story in his own language and still talk to the whole world.

POEM
Title: These Fatherless sons: An Ode of Despair!
Location: Bulawayo

Hath the world given no fathers,
Only our humble folk and mothers?
This folk of fatherless sons,
Parading their mothers like guerrillas’ triumphant guns,
Singing a wartime song!
These motherless sons,
Where are their fathers?
This world with many men is clothed and clad,
Dare ask the weaning nepios or the growing lad,
They know not of fathers but mothers.
Where the hell went the fathers?
Either dead or deadbeat,
Expired of the pressure,
Or simple ran away; couldn’t handle the heat!