Poems Rethabile Likes

You Will Forget by Chenjerai Hove | Poems Rethabile Likes You Will Forget by Chenjerai Hove If you stay in comfort too long You will not know The weight of a water pot On the bald head of the village woman You will forget The weight of three bundles of thatch grass On the sinewy neck of the woman Whose baby cries on her back For a blade of grass in its eyes Sure, if you stay in comfort too long You will not know the pain Of child birth without a nurse in white You will forget The thirst, the cracked dusty lips Of the women in the valley On her way to the headman...