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Tari Mtetwa

NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE A RIVER

NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE A RIVER

NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE A RIVER

Never thought I’d be a river
and flow my freshness
into a salty sea
or surrender my life
into its dead end
never thought I’d lose my song
for its void silence
and the freedom of my waters
for its troubled waves
that are eternally the sea
Tari Mtetwa

Tari Mtetwa

(Zimbabwe, 1982)

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NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE A RIVER

Never thought I’d be a river
and flow my freshness
into a salty sea
or surrender my life
into its dead end
never thought I’d lose my song
for its void silence
and the freedom of my waters
for its troubled waves
that are eternally the sea

NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE A RIVER

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