Ilungu:Zamatshatshu

TO THE HAPPIEST MEMORIES OF LIFE POEM BY ZAMATSHATSHU THEMBEKA CHASO

I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD LOSE HIM I NEVER THOUGHT THAT LIFE WUOLD BE THIS SHORT FOR HIM I WAS NOT THERE TO SEE HIM RUNNING AWAY FROM HIM I NEVER THOUGHT THAT THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE WOULD TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME WHEN I HEARD THAT HE IS SICK MY HEARTBEAT WENT FASTER THAN EVER I LOST THE CONTACT I HAD WIYH HIM THE CONTACT THAT WAS WITHIN OUR HEARTS THE CONTACT THAT I THOUGHT WOULD NEVER GO AWAY THE NEXT MINUTE HE WAS GONE I THEN ASKED MYSELF "WHAT IS LIFE WHEN NO ONE CAN LIVE AN ETERNAL ONE?" "YINTONI UBOMI XA KUNGEKHO NAMNYE ONOKUPHILA OBUNGUNAPHAKADE?" I NEVER CRIED THAT DAE CAUSE I KNEW THAT THE MIDDLE MAN DID NOT TAKE HIM AWAY FROM ME HE WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEARTS HIS SOUL WILL SHINE UPON US HIS PRESENCE WILL APPEAR AMONGST US REST IN PEACE JUSTIN MCCARTHY I WILL NEVER FORGET THE HAPPIEST DAE OF OUR LIVES