HOME UNHOMELY






Zimbabwe Riot Police fire tear gas at Harvest House MDC-T HQ



Home unhomely

written by Chinofunga Ndoga 

Brutal acolytes sustaining
Politicians scheming
Greedy and unethical leadership
Blind and docile followers toil
Fractured dissent sleeps
multiple silent lips talk

Wailing widows
Hungry crying toddlers
Raped pregnant sisters
armed militant brothers
Toiling moiling mothers
Jobless penniless fathers
Homeless displaced
Starving pensioners
Traumatised lot
laughing hyenas even

Media parroting propaganda
Courts discharging injustice and injunctions
Unyielding securocrats
Empty barracks
Armoured tanks in motion along Samora Machel Avenue
Hungry soldiers with loaded machine guns parading at Stodart Hall in Mbare
Empty camps
Police in the neighbourhood maintaining disorder
Riot army in gear
Some on horse backs, some in Mercedes, others on foot
Running and leading the marathon of violence
Sweating and swelling eyeballs in the fog of teargas
Coward innocents

Listening to the music of gunfire
the hapless and hopeless taking-in asthmatic breadths of gunpowder

 



Zimbabwe Riot Police beating peaceful protesters with rubber truncheons





Broken homes, broken bones, missing limbs, hurried burials

Roaming, restless spirits, unappeased

Mobile phone farmers, exiled labour

Exported skills, verges overgrown, earth unwatered, barren lands

Empty silos, unpacked shelves,  specified companies, unsellable minerals

Swindled banks, worthless currency, unfed stomachs, morgues overflowing

Countless graves, meaningless consoles

A nation in mourning

A nation at war with dear self

Our home unhomely Zimbabwe