i. Once We Were One

For once we were nothing, but my people once
we were one.
 
Somewhere in the forgotten world once
we both climbed each other,
cleaved and cleaved to one another.
 
We both heard the years hurtling past,
whirring like gears in a hulk factory.
 
We saw kin and kith breathing,
we gathered our thoughts like defetsui leaves
For the diviner and if some death was coming this way
it will go beyond together.

Even before we took Kete to Datsutagba there were no doubts
swarming like reconnaissance planes over forests of sleep,
we were one.
 
We only heard words murmured in love.
 
What a grand time we were. What a grand time are now.
What a grand time………………….
What a grand time..
 
Where are they now?