Billowing Smoke Poem by Deluke Muwanigwa

Billowing Smoke

Billowing smoke rises up and up
like an apparition
casting a hazy shadow on the ground

It is the final solution

One man decides to expire another
with or without justification
with or without provocation

Inspite of there being other means and methods of conflict resolution
he packages the lack of tolerance in incendiary

The billowing smoke is the harbinger of a revolution
a change by force

I am yet to fathom why man subjugates another
why the myriad ideas cannot coexist

why they cannot mingle and evolve forever
together

why extremes have to be meted out on one by another
taking the role of the creator

when,
at the end of the day the billowing smoke
carrying the dreams and aspiration of the deceased
may, one day, billow for all.

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