When My Father Fell Sick Poem by Phillip Nine Mafunga

The cricket noise in my mental roof
Childhood nightmares that never were
Fear of a shadow less life
Confessions of hopelessness
Motionless verbs of unending evenings of hope
Dress rehearsals of seesaws of mental trauma
Fear draped flags of dishonor
Like a tomorrow undated on the calendar of beauty and comfort
Doused by the momentous noisy cascades of the mighty Zambezi
A perfect description of emotional contradictions
Do I see storm clouds gathering somewhere in the horizon?
Is it fixing to pour down just before dawn?
And she calmed down; yes she did!
PHILLIP NINE MAFUNGA
19 August 2020