Ahh Mama by Nonkululeko Godana

 Aah Mama by Nonkululeko Godana
(thanks Donavan Kensmil for the performance photograph)

This poem (Ahh Mama) finally finds a space in the digital realm - after 7 years...an ode to earth mother (aka Gaia)... or simply Mama. You can listen to the link or see transcript here:

Our Mother who art(s) all around us

Mama, Mme be your name

Your Queendom has come

Your will be done

And children fed on this earth

For this is our heaven

Give us our daily sunrays of embraces

and summer-rain kisses

and forgive our brother and sister

who bite on the nipple

that feeds them breastmilk

Lead us into bleeding temptation

For this is how we learn

This is your Afrika

If only you realize your power

And rub onto your children’s wounds

Forever and ever…

Ah Mama

Ah Mama!

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