Enchanted and Eloped
written by: Ndaba Sibanda
@loveoclockn
she was short and slender
her voice vivid and tender
it beamed an invisible smile
infectious even from a mile
she was a blessing to her patients
as she treated them like her parents
she told them high blood was manageable
with diet and lifestyle changes—all was doable
one day one foreign suitor charmed away the adorable
the one doctor whose services poor elders found invaluable
Ndaba`s poems have been widely anthologised. Sibanda is the author of The Gushungo Way, Sleeping Rivers, Love O’clock, The Dead Must Be Sobbing, Football of Fools, Cutting-edge Cache: Unsympathetic Untruth, Of the Saliva and the Tongue, When Inspiration Sings In Silence and Poetry Pharmacy. He was nominated for the 2019 Pushcart Prize in Poetry.
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