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Chris Magadza

THE WAVE

THE WAVE

THE WAVE

See yon wave
Come to shore.

It rises from the bowels
Of the sleeping oceans
And after many a days’
Troubled travel
Dies on a strange beach.

Oh how futile
Life’s sojourn
That this dust
Should rise
To fall.



Kariba, 1990
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THE WAVE

See yon wave
Come to shore.

It rises from the bowels
Of the sleeping oceans
And after many a days’
Troubled travel
Dies on a strange beach.

Oh how futile
Life’s sojourn
That this dust
Should rise
To fall.



Kariba, 1990

THE WAVE

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