SONNET FOR GRANDMOTHER

To shade all my hopes

And when my life beams,

Snap between heavy blocks

Or when life witnesses a goodbye long

And the clock’s chime clangs a dreary gong

When a smile despairs a burning weep

To start and end a river wave’s happy leap

When a riverbed rests below too deep,

A dwindling shadow must understand the sinking sun

And believe night will not YET shatter the light of day

And that a smile refutes the mundane of cry,

To sing, or to chorus, or to utter yet another,

A song for you, great-grandmother

 For Gogo Ngwenya (aka Jackson) REST IN PEACE