SILENCE IS NO LONGER GOLDEN By Kgalalelo Moyo

Kgalalelo Moyo was born on the 3^rd of October 1994 in Bulawayo. He did his primary schooling at Fusi Primary School (2000-2006) in Gwabalanda, Bulawayo, he then attended Inyanda High School (2007-2012) in Gwabalanda, Bulawayo. Later on, he pursued his studies with Hillside Teachers’ College (2015-2016) trained as a secondary school teacher specialising in the teaching of English as a language, Literature in English and History. He then pursued his studies with the University of Zimbabwe where he attained a B.ed (English).  He has so far written two published anthologies namely The Shadow that Slumbers my Life and Now I Utter the Words Unuttered. He also collaborated with various IsiNdebele poets in the production of an anthology titled Umthombo Wenkondlo/Dura reNhetembo/ The Well of Poetry. He is currently working on an anthology and a collection of short stories titled COVIDA-NCE: The Mirror Stares Back and The Agonising Flames of Love respectively. Apart from writing, he has worked on various publications as an editor and worked alongside the likes of Albert Nyathi in the production of an anthology titled Matters of the Heart by a South African poet Tumisho Moetlo.

Extracted from The Shadow that Slumbers my Life

SILENCE IS NO LONGER GOLDEN

My voice was cut silent by those who know

They despise the words of my mouth before they hear them

They govern my life as if they are demi-gods of human nature

Wounds that could have healed sting in my heart

For my words are accounted rebellious

 

The knot in my throat has choked the rest of my being

Sorrows have flown and dried with no appeasement

My face cracks with the chilli glands from my eyes

My heart whistles through the holes created by their stabs

Their deeds the bottom of a scorpion to my heart

My misery a bliss in their tyrant traditions

My tears a rains to their garden of oppression

My cries a melody to their evil dances

My suffering a victory to their mission

My humility a reign of their evil authority

Silence is no longer golden

I will speak out the evil they have done to me

I will tell the world how they raped me

I will tell the world how they kept me quite

I will tell the world how they castrated my voice

My voice will rumble with remedies to the oppressed

I will speak the bitterness of their reigns

I will tell the world how they made me suck their manhood

I will tell the world how I got the cancer of the heart

Silence is no longer golden, let's spit the feud.