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Fungisayi Sasa

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MIDLIFE CRISIS

MIDLIFE CRISIS

MIDLIFE CRISIS

My life is measured out in spoons,
teaspoons.
Teaspoons of sugar.
“How many sir?”
“Three, just three.”
I nod and smile a tight smile.
My life is a bitter one,
I take sugar to sweeten it.
As the granules
sink in a brown murky
pool of tepid tea,
I feel time dissolving
into the past, a pool
of despair.
My failures and days are heaped
in spoons,
teaspoons.
Teaspoons of sugar.
Three, just three.

© 2004, Fungisayi Sasa
Publisher: First published on PIW,

Fungisayi Sasa

Fungisayi Sasa

(Zimbabwe, 1983)

Fungisayi Sasa is a Zimbabwean writer living in England. Her first children’s book The Search Head (Eloquent Books, 2008) is available on Amazon. She has had a short story published in the anthology Writing Lives (Weaver Press, 2011). Her poetry has appeared on Poetry International and in Spilt Milk, a magazine. She is currently working on a short story collection and a novel. Her poem 300 Roun...

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MIDLIFE CRISIS

My life is measured out in spoons,
teaspoons.
Teaspoons of sugar.
“How many sir?”
“Three, just three.”
I nod and smile a tight smile.
My life is a bitter one,
I take sugar to sweeten it.
As the granules
sink in a brown murky
pool of tepid tea,
I feel time dissolving
into the past, a pool
of despair.
My failures and days are heaped
in spoons,
teaspoons.
Teaspoons of sugar.
Three, just three.

MIDLIFE CRISIS

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