It's Over Now

It's two o'clock exactly and you just happen to wake
Back then it was for the best
The routine
Jumping off from the top of the bunk bed with a start,
No time to think otherwise,
You are in the right path to your backpack to collect your studypack. if
I felt pity knowing that it's hard for you to grasp facts
Aren't you glad it's over?
It's over now.
Remember the days you had to wear slip ons
To class because the skin under your feet had started peeling off
Testifying long hours of immersion in water
Inorder to keep awake.
Are you not relieved it's over now Merit?
See your heels have healed just in time.
A time you are about to go to college.
You hadn't time to wear schools shoes for a reason...
You a queen Merit start by wearing high heeled shoes!
I believe you felt something when you went to collect your results.
Till now you not sure what you felt
And you know it hadn't much impact the patting of shoulders....
You had made they proud they kept saying.
What you felt was relief my child because it's over!
Learning does not cease of course
End of a program is followed by another cause but I'm saying to you its over.
You have excelled now
And I'm sure what is to come is a walkover Merit
You have made me proud
I cry when I think of moments I thought your mind was not that sound
That is over for me also for its over now
Now have the recommended 8 or more
Of what you had forsaken for future's sake for its over my child!

From: 
Zimbabwe




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ABOUT THE POET ~
Farai is singer-songwriter who also have a penchant for poetry which started when he took up English Literature as a subject at GCE A Level. He writes about almost everything but he is more interested in freedom and religious poetry.


Last updated April 17, 2016