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Charles Mungoshi

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Now your body begins
to preach its own truth
the truth you have tried
to ignore all these years
the terrible truth
to which we must finally
succumb.
Whatever you may have
Or may have not believed in
does not matter now
for there was
and always is
that which is beyond
our most fond, profound concepts
that which, like any invisible worm,
has been slowly eating away at the core
of our present form,
the worm which starts its work
exactly at the very moment
your present form is conceived.
Now you are only a witness
to the truth that begins to manifest itself
at this moment when you are least prepared
to accept it –
You haven’t prepared yourself for it,
Yet there are always signs –
It’s like the old biblical stories
All over again –
I sent you many prophets
and you killed them.
Now you can only marvel
at how quickly you crumble.
Now what you have always preached in words
manifests itself in body, in silent action.
Charles  Mungoshi

Charles Mungoshi

(Zimbabwe, 1947)

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Now your body begins
to preach its own truth
the truth you have tried
to ignore all these years
the terrible truth
to which we must finally
succumb.
Whatever you may have
Or may have not believed in
does not matter now
for there was
and always is
that which is beyond
our most fond, profound concepts
that which, like any invisible worm,
has been slowly eating away at the core
of our present form,
the worm which starts its work
exactly at the very moment
your present form is conceived.
Now you are only a witness
to the truth that begins to manifest itself
at this moment when you are least prepared
to accept it –
You haven’t prepared yourself for it,
Yet there are always signs –
It’s like the old biblical stories
All over again –
I sent you many prophets
and you killed them.
Now you can only marvel
at how quickly you crumble.
Now what you have always preached in words
manifests itself in body, in silent action.

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