Do no Bury my body!
I hopped along
Just one more leap
I told myself
I was not going to stop,
I actually knew I wasn’t.
Again and again,
Over and over
I dropped down on my black face
I tasted sand and blood on my throat,
I exhaled with my lips on the ground.
Gouging the dunes of the autumn wind
Like a bambino on summers day beach,
My spirit will egress soon.
Nothing will be left
But a cadaver,
No one to help,
Please! Please!
Nature look back, recall all my good deeds
Recall my sensibility and my kindness,
Let me hop once more,
And die a peaceful death.
A heroic death
Don’t bury my body
Burial is harmful to the soil
Don’t bury my body
I don’t want to feed maggots
They already feasted on my ancestors,
Let my body be eaten by scavengers
Indeed it will be heroic death
Because my Remainders would have
Nourished flora and Fona
– End –
Zisemafosini
Selokhu Sathi nhlo!
Amahlabazulu akathi
awakaze aphunyuke emafosini.
Amahlolamvula akith’
egcekeni likaDlothov’
abhula umhlahlo oshay’eceleni.
Amavenga AseNaleni
akaze siwathi mbibi.
Singamajubantondo
enkonjan’edukel’ ezulwini
angakaze ajubalale nomoya okhabuzelayo.
Sinduluza ongaxamabuthweni
abalumba amalumbo
bethi bazwelana naboMdabu.
Ayabonakala amakloba
kuze kube namuhla.
Nokho siyacacamezela
Siya phambili.
Sife olwembiza,
siyabhibha.
Sidinga ukuthelwa ngezibonkolo
ukuze siphaphame.
Silwe nezimpi
ezibhekene nendlu kaMamonga.
-End-
