EDITOR, The Tribune.
A Day inevitable has after all Arrived
(For Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz,
August 13, 1926 to November 25, 2016)
When I get back to Cuba,
will I sense this loss
will it be empty of something
what void has this death,
has his death created, caused,
in Cuba as well as in all the world
is it like air gone out
of all the tyres on the road,
out of all the tyres in the world
Castro expiring, sighing,
tired after all, right through
his mind and body passing
now that he has lain down and died,
now that he has given up his life,
now that he has been taken back,
taken up, taken away from us and from the sum of life
what will - who will there be to fill us, to uplift us
who will argue for- take up the cause
of the oppressed of this world
of the wretched of the earth
in heaven he’ll be happy, I am certain,
to meet again, to chat and to laugh
with Frantz Fanon and Aimé Césaire.
OBEDIAH SMITH
Blantyre, Malawi.
November 26, 2016.
Comments
banker 7 years, 5 months ago
What a bunch of bosh. He was a tyrant who killed people who opposed him. He violated human rights and he kept his people in misery. It is a time to rejoice that the miserable, evil excuse of a human being is no longer breathing.
Hotelier 7 years, 5 months ago
Here here Banker. Mr. Smith: spout that garbage to a Cuban/Floridian I know whose parents were lined up and shot by a firing squad.
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