Monday Morning

The Monday morning news of Dr. John Garang’s death broke….

Shadowy Monday morning

In sleeping ears lodging

Churning up our destiny

Lurking in the realm of misery

To catapult us into shock

And silence every c**k

Foundering in breaking

The news of bitterness

Overriding the sweetness

Wedged between hope and despair

Just days before a fanfare

Now grief and wonderment

At fate’s relief & disappointment

Washing us with torrents of tears

A deluge on vibrant bush years

Of immense loss and endless anguish

Laden with a heavy cross and limitless relish

Lo, you paddle home the news

Dripping of our hues

Cornering the gleaming dews

With the fury of abruptness

Disarming their coldness

To rip open the stillness

Now everything else is heaviness