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Ethel Irene Kabwato
The Witch’s Dance
The Witch’s Dance
The Witch’s Dance
We walked onThrough the dust
The wind enclosing us
Our vision clouded with dust
Our dusty feet coated with red soil.
We walked on
the whirlwind
spiralling and dancing
The papers and the grass
Floating in the air
You called it
The witch’s dance
You closed my eyes
And held me close
You said she would come
And I waited
But we walked on
The dust stinging my eyes
I felt the rhythm
Within your heart
Entrapping the blackness
Of my soul
You said she would dance.
I felt the beat
As you stamped your feet
The darkness enveloping me
The dust suppressing my breath
The witch’s dance
I heard you shouting
The witch has danced
She had danced
With the whirlwind
And gone with the wind.
© 2007, Ethel Irine Kabwato
Publisher: First published on PIW,
Publisher: First published on PIW,
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The Witch’s Dance
We walked onThrough the dust
The wind enclosing us
Our vision clouded with dust
Our dusty feet coated with red soil.
We walked on
the whirlwind
spiralling and dancing
The papers and the grass
Floating in the air
You called it
The witch’s dance
You closed my eyes
And held me close
You said she would come
And I waited
But we walked on
The dust stinging my eyes
I felt the rhythm
Within your heart
Entrapping the blackness
Of my soul
You said she would dance.
I felt the beat
As you stamped your feet
The darkness enveloping me
The dust suppressing my breath
The witch’s dance
I heard you shouting
The witch has danced
She had danced
With the whirlwind
And gone with the wind.
The Witch’s Dance
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