Khalani zome

Author

Yandisa Krobani

Publisher

FunDza Literacy Trust

Language

isiXhosa

Licence

Length

Short

Topics

People Poems Suffering Poems

Khalani zome

Nalahla ubuntu kunye namasiko
Navala amehlo namuhla iinkomo azikho
Senifana nenkukhu enqunywe amaphiko
Imilomo yomile, ikati lilele eziko
Khalani zome.

Nazizonda naze nazitshintsha nebala
Naya etywaleni nishiye abantwana bekhala
Nina enikhupha isiNgesi ngamakhala
Kodwa olwebele niluphosa ethala
Khalani zome.

Kutheni nifuna umtshato
Kodwa nilwenza umdlalo uthando?
Nina eningenandaba nowenu umlando
Iimpilo zenu zigcwele ububi nenzondo
Khalani zome.

Nabiza abantu ngeziwula namaqaba
Kodwa angcono amaqaba kulomhlaba
Kunezifundiswa ezingamasela anemikhaba
Ma-Afrika okuzayo ndiyakoyika!
Khalani zome.

Don't Be Sorry

Near a cliff

A few words (as we scrabble away)

I Lost Something

Happy Days

3 Responses

All religions are false, idiotic, and ridiculous. Therefore, no religion must claim to be superior than the others. Religions are merely psychological ideas people use to motivate themselves and cope with challenges they encounter in their daily lives. They all are not true. They are weapons people use to escape reality. And Western Civilization is not the mother of all wisdom. Religions, cultures, and traditions are not necessarily true, but people choosing to live based on them must not mock those different from theirs, and those who don't believe in any of those superstitious and supernatural balderdash.

Yandisa Madida Krobani · 2 years ago

This is a very superb and informative poem. The writer is immensely talented. Our own African languages.

judicious · 5 years ago

Wonderful indeed.

Chief Justice Ngcobo · 5 years ago

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