A cadaverous fellow long-limbed
With a sparrow-sized head capped
With short-hairs,fraught with a glee heart
Set for frivolous pleasure of childhood zest;
Emboldening all my juvenile nostalgias
Of how we swinged frolicly on tree branches,
Climbing like monkeys devour`ng mellow peaches.
Then sate roaming the street clinging on fences
With oblivious stealthy moving discreetly
Stealing juicy black grapes in a very close proximity.
Then an echoing whiplash marking few welts
On the back running frantically on dusty streets.
Ah!Friend born of means glory of a sound life
All prospects of thrive inevitably plenty in future;
Always seeking to relish to a full throttle the joys
Of being young:A mocking humour we shared
Knowing you have joined the school choir band,
Scathamiya and Umshado.This excitement reminds
Me of childhood treble nostalgia most humorous
When I joined the choir and unceremoniously
Dismissed due to my guttural voice very throaty.
With a specter of stark embarrassment I limped
Sluggishly to the toilets smoothening the pain.
Those exuberant days!Lying-low under the sheen
Of the crimson face stretching the catapults
Concealed in tawny grasses aiming at birds,
In good days plenty of flesh collected we roasted
The bone-clinging meat rendering itself unworthy.
I recall friend narrating forthright
About the trip to famous Durban jolly with merriment
Diving divinely on sea water,
Gaming myriad games pleasurely,
Reposing on hotel bed`s very comforting.
The ta`en pictures entrap the memory
Till light stick nor a bin end the taken memory.
The year is dwindling and I hear:
The sweet sentiments of travel
Echoed in rhapsody thought relishful
Of again mirthful days soon to befall.
Such enrapture!What morrows breath can resist
To be expedited heralding closer to the merriment.
Also the year is dwindling and I hear:
Deeply pined wishes leaping close
A threshold to the watershed in gesture
Waving frantically bound by stern time
To swift-motion and subdue the suspense.
All the absurd mocking droned in disparaging tone
Will fade to naught with unrivaled incantation.
