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Chenjerai Hove

to a dictator

to a dictator

to a dictator

in your time
you took away
the flowers of our freedom.
in your time
the weak defended
your weakness,
and the land cried;
the moon too
was dark
in your time.

(in memory of a Pakistani poet who refused)
Chenjerai  Hove

Chenjerai Hove

(Zimbabwe, 1956 - 2015)

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to a dictator

in your time
you took away
the flowers of our freedom.
in your time
the weak defended
your weakness,
and the land cried;
the moon too
was dark
in your time.

(in memory of a Pakistani poet who refused)

to a dictator

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