Via Via [en] Poem by Zyw Zywa

Via Via [en]



Via Via I do approximately know who I am
someone among all the people

who keep the city alive
and show me my soul
We feed each other, therefore eat
each other as one body
mankind, hungering to live
approximately knowing who we are
among each other and the rest
on our long way
up, down
and around

The goals I had, lost
and not missed, lost
in ubuntu

Wednesday, March 2, 2022
Topic(s) of this poem: connection,together
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
A Via Via café --- Bantu = people; munu/muntu = man --- Ubuntu = becoming and being human through others, being one, I am because we are --- Song 'Ich bin den weiten Weg gegangen' ('I went the long way',1974, Hildegard Knef) --- Collection 'The drama'
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