by
Ndaba Sibanda
How does she manage to extend
a hand of love and peace to the
forces of her torment and loss?
Is she not orphaned and mocked?
Maybe her patient heart utters:
Please be patient with patients.
Bitterness resides not in her head.
How does she meet all that hate
with humanity? All that pretense
with a high measure of honesty?
Thando --hailing from Gwatemba--
indeed lives up to her name: Love.
The big question though is: Will
the patients in their wise foolery
not stretch her human patience thin?
Will it not snap off like a rubber band
and run riot on their faces and façade?
Only time will be the storyteller of this.
Some of Ndaba`s works are found or forthcoming in Page & Spine, Winning Writers,Peeking Cat ,Piker Press , The Ofi Press Magazine ,SCARLET LEAF REVIEW ,Hawaii Pacific Review , panoply, a literary zine, Saraba Magazine, Poetry Potion, Unlikely Stories Mark V, Outside In Literary & Travel , storySouth, Deltona Howl, RAMINGO! ITCH, Josh McBee's NonDoc articles.
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