A Mapela ,
eldest daughter, this child loved too
But for what God has given me
First
Even if I was an atheist
I travel light
Silhouette dumb bells silenced my
On the pitch of an unknown land I
twists like a worm, naked
Oblivious of what I experienced too
The golds, pigs and Sometimes
strong in one body
occupants of carriages
And those cul-de-dungeon
All reveling
the first day of the year
Some of what they cram
The other for what they soufrent
My
be full of horror I first want to vomit all my heart retching
No I will not go into these designs It condemned me
wrongly
Here I finally turned away from these places abhorred
Here I foolishly thought that happiness was once nestled
As with all these women I do not like
To have the desired each other and wished I regretted
My steps are no longer counted
From my wife and children only weighted
I'm going with what I knew raise
I do not run over it with a light heart I
That is forging passes straight
As my father before me, but with faith
Mapela And if the granddaughter of Eloi's
then it my groin, new places
With God's help I made my choice
EMERY G. UHINDU-GINGALA
(Extract from Opuscule , prose and poems)
