By Kwanele Mntungwa
To you baba
I leave this piece with love.
Forgive me father
For blaming you,
For not raising your
Own blood.
I now understand,
That I was supposed to be a man from day one.
Without teeth
I was to grind.
You left me with no picture.
I don’t know you,
Just pictures in the mirror,
When my sister and I look at it.
I’m not complaining much,
But life without you
Was never easy at all,
But perhaps it was the easiest one I got.
Because I never tasted one with you.
I have asked mother,
She says you were a criminal,
A useless gadabout dog.
But I wish you were there,
To say your side of the story,
So that I could be sited, judging
And sending you,
To a prison of regret.
To regret there till
You die..
Mbulazi
