Lomawywesa
(Michael Kabotie)
Ya Ha Hail
I have come
it was a long
hard death
scars of battle
struggling to die
crying, agony/fright
gasping for that
final breath
and finally
jerking in violent
spasms of death
But alas!
here I stand
crying and shouting
sounds of happiness
and joy
KUWAH WA DODA NGUI!
In death I am born.
From: Michael Kabotie. "I Have Come" from Sun Tracks Five (1979). Copyright ©1979 by Michael Kabotie.
Reprinted by permission of the author.
As printed in Larry Evers, ed. The South Corner of Time. Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, ©1980, p. 40.
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