By Collen Kajokoto

If ever I had time

To talk of time,

This moment in time,

With a thorned tongue

I declare it the time

To talk of time .

I decline time

And anything against time

I pen about a time

When there was no time,

A timeless time ,

Angelic time in Mother’s womb,

I knew then no adversary,

I knew no scarfed crocodiles

In our Harare dry taps.

Now I fear the park bench

Lest I sit on the crocodile mouth

I’m against war time

And anything against war

For war brings peace 

To the Oppressed!

** The author is a Harare poet and human rights defender