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to Seed and Grow Stronger

Tendai R. Mwanaka

The inner faces of a sheer river
That I could not see-
Waters of its depths

But I know
The water is there
The earth knows it too

They would be night birds
Drawing damp shadows
Across the water

And on the embankment
Are creatures that lives on sunlight
In another world.

And if I put my ear
The earth speaks
With sounds of distant rapids

And when I dip to drink
They are ripples
Which the river takes away.

Even at this distance
I feel the rapids
Of the far away waters

Like something unrelenting
From my past
Disappearing inside me.

The river searches
To drink up raw earth
To seed and grow stronger.

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