Amazing Mother's Struggles

by

Ndaba Sibanda

Mother, you embody love,

You define noble nourishment of a child.

You bestow a child with amazing queenly care.

Mother, you saw beyond what l was,

To what l could be in this competitive world.

You helped me build my destiny and chart out my way.  

You struggled in London with a high measure of selflessness.

For all the wonderful sacrifices no countless words are enough honour.

May our Creator`s love continue to reign and radiate through your life.

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.

A Heart Of Love

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.