My Madiba #1 (Repost with recording)

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My Madiba #1 (Repost with recording)

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

0 posted 2014-01-24 08:46 AM

MY MADIBA #1
12 December 2013

http://soundcloud.com/diana-van-den-berg-2/my-madiba-1

I have no words for you
only sobs.

The immensity of you
and the ruptured grief of me
hold me speechless.

I have no messages for you
in all the places
I can leave them.

I have no thoughts,
no opinions,
no expressions of acclamation,
nor of grief,
nor of appreciation,
nor of thanks.

Forgive me if I cannot
celebrate your life
yet.

I have no words for you,
yet,
only gasping, body-shaking sobs,
my beloved Madiba.

Owl

EmmaRose
Senior Member

since 2011-03-02

Posts 1376
Midwest

1 posted 2014-01-24 10:34 AM

The pause to write can overtake our great
love for the person who passed, temporarily
as in the following poetry posted you are once again able to deeply express what felt locked within, unable to exit, holding onto your grief.. May the following days bring the joy you felt for the great leader amid the sorrow

OwlSA
Member Rara Avis

since 2005-11-07

Posts 9347
Durban, South Africa

2 posted 2014-01-24 10:42 AM

Thank you for understanding and expressing it so beautifully, EmmaRose.

Owl

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