NDABA SIBANDA - POWERLESS AND FORSAKEN SOULS IN A DARK CORNER

​Ndaba`s poems have been widely anthologised . Sibanda is the author of Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache: Unsympathetic Untruth, Of the Saliva and the Tongue,The Gushungo Way and When Inspiration Sings In Silence.  His work is featured in The Anthology House, in The New Shoots Anthology, and in The Van Gogh Anthology, and A Worldwide Anthology of One Hundred Poetic Intersections. Some of Ndaba`s works are found or forthcoming in  Page & Spine,  Peeking Cat, Piker Press , The Ofi Press Magazine ,SCARLET LEAF REVIEW  Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Amazon.ca and the Pangolin.

​Powerless And Forsaken Souls In A Dark Corner

​ditched fridges know there is a grave problem
beyond mechanical and electrical harassments
 
beyond the decaying food and dented drugs
beyond being underutilized and abused daily
 
cold plates know there is a grave problem
beyond the nonavailability of food & money
 
for someone's culinary skills are sludge
a mockery of decency and delicacy   
 
students can't follow normal study schedules
phones have to be charged outside the country!
 
the TV knows that there is a serious problem
it sympathises with viewers and licence payers
 
for not getting value for their time and money!
it says the whole saga sucks big time ,souls!
 
it says viewers' lives have been messed up
who pays for nonavailable power?--it queries!
 
for you just go off  when they order you to do so
you go off and plunge homes into utter confusion
 
into darkness, into  boredom, into silence & misery
you dump decency into helplessness, into coldness
 
each time you disappear someone  wonders --
wonders when the madness of power will end
 
the madness of power leaves innocent souls
drowning in powerlessness and frustration
 
the root of their misery is nothing else                                                              
but a power problem, a perpetual syndrome ...