Poem
Charles Mungoshi
LOCKED ROOM
LOCKED ROOM
LOCKED ROOM
I have kept your advice, Mother,adhered to it with a tenacity
you’d never believe me capable of.
I have locked my door every night
against monsters and intruders
burglar-proofed my not-enough-to-turn-in world
against would-be housebreakers.
Now –
Invisible to you –
I dissolve through
secret doors you never told me of.
But, why –
you are crying?
Mother!
© 2008, Charles Mungoshi
Publisher: First published on PIW in a special Zimbabwean edition, 10th June 2008,
Publisher: First published on PIW in a special Zimbabwean edition, 10th June 2008,
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LOCKED ROOM
I have kept your advice, Mother,adhered to it with a tenacity
you’d never believe me capable of.
I have locked my door every night
against monsters and intruders
burglar-proofed my not-enough-to-turn-in world
against would-be housebreakers.
Now –
Invisible to you –
I dissolve through
secret doors you never told me of.
But, why –
you are crying?
Mother!
LOCKED ROOM
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