BECAUSE OF YOU

Because of you my brother,

Childhood memories

Will haunt my life.



Your flowerbed cover

Outside our grass thatched mansions

Will forever call

Agitating our forgetful mind

To remember…



Because of you

I have kept that picture

Invoking the memories of childhood

When our father would have left

Last night; and our mother

Leaving us contained

With all that we needed:

Springs of milk flowing -

We will tap

And enjoy day long

Till she will come

Our day

Will close

With songs of joy

Outside the tall tree

Where our sisters and brothers

Melted our hearts

With there presence of belonging

From “good stories"

That our faces brightened the night.



Because of you

The winds of adventure will litter my eyes

Into the coffee plant

Into the bushes

To silence the singing birds

The dying scratch

On my forehead

Will tell of the deserted rocks.



Because of you

Football is an epitome

Our father’s field

Will never die from my heart

I will watch

As we play and enjoy

Till our stomach will call us home.



Because of you

I will embrace the blowing winds

As you slept a board

That evening

Never more to be heard!

I ask my memory

But still remains at large

You- who!

We grew together!



Because of you

We will call our children

Bye

Till that morning!