a tired man
walks in the rain
passes a girl child
splashing
shoes all wet
and not a care in the world
that this tired man could see
eyes shut quiet
to a smile inside
carries the man
across far echoes
deep within
where
the world sings
in harmony
with angels dreaming
words
as the long sighs
water
washes up upon a young man’s
soul
just the carvings
of where a dreaming man
dares to see
the song
a tired man
walks long
where the rain cries sweet.
Still Living on my Feet is the follow up to Tichaona Chinyelu’s first book, In the Whirlwind, which was rooted in a sense of hard-hitting revolutionary black love. However, in this sophomore effort, Tichaona brings the revolutionary essence from deep
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