TIME AND SOCIETY

TIME AND SOCIETY POEM

By Luckier Chikopa 

Guest Writer

Name: Luckier Chikopa

PenName: Luckier Chikopa

Genre: Poems/Shortstory/Articles

Profession:  Poet, Electrical Technician and an Electrical Installation and Electronics Instructor at Milonga  Community Technical College in Thyolo district.

Location: Malawi 

TIME AND SOCIETY

 

We bow down to the whims of time all the time

All the time we hope time will give us best times

But time gives us an equal measure bitter sweeter times at times

In the long run, we seem to convince ourselves that we cannot run away from time

 

 

When time from the west caught up with us, it ambiguously brainwashed and corrupt our cultural values in the society

Time from the west said, why don’t you try our fashion?

And society said yes!

Time from the west said, why don’t you go and build on top of soche, Ndirande, mpingwe hills

And society said yes!  Yes!

    And that is how, time from the west shaved our natural coat shrubs  

 

 

And so, time from the west in the society just connive all the time

It draws up tyrannical laws we abide by without questioning all the times

All the time boundaries built of concrete separating the worlds of time and society

Making our culture born in the fertile fields of rosy dreams in our minds

And sadly, dies a suffocating death in the depth of our expectant bellies

What a travesty!

 

I wish we could control our own time in the society

I wish we could have our own dawn and sunrise

Our own breaking new ground

Our own mustard seed growing to the heights

Our own peg in a square society that we can fit in

 

Sadly

We are authorizing time from the west to hold us back

And

We cannot drive our society in our own time

 

GLOSSARY

Soche: name of township and hill in Blantyre city

Mpingwe: name of township and hill in Blantyre city

Ndirande: name of township and hill in Blantyre city

 



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