Of Zesa Gone: Flying In The Dark

Sometimes you fall before you fly…
in my case I had to stumble in the dark,
discover a coffee table with my ankle,
explore something hard with my pinky
reach with my hands into unending darkness
only to walk into a closed door with my face
and refrain from swearing too loudly
stumble backwards,
fall on my back,
get up again,
try to see in the dark
only to bump my big toe on something hard
and turn right
into a wall
face first,
and drop my phone
which landed onto my other pinky toe
and disappeared beneath the coffee table
now am crawling after it
all before I start flying
I will FLY….


Zesa Gone
Zesa gone – no electricity

a little something written during load-shedding (a power outage) *ZESA is the Zimbabwean power utility company and colloquially refers to electricity.

~B

Responses to “Of Zesa Gone: Flying In The Dark”

  1. bellahthepoet avatar

    Totally relatable

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    1. Beaton avatar

      Googling how to build my own power station 🤣🤣🤣
      ~B

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      1. bellahthepoet avatar

        For real….Great dreams where would it be located

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      2. Beaton avatar

        In my backyard obviously 🤣🤣🤣 so I can keep an eye on it if course
        ~B

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      3. bellahthepoet avatar

        This is so funny🤣🤣🤣

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    1. Beaton avatar

      🤣🤣🤣
      ~B

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  2. Claire 'Word by Word' avatar

    Excellent, I hope you have candles, maybe not, I can already imagine a few more lines in the poem.

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    1. Beaton avatar

      Hahaha every dropped candle wax on your hand while walking around with a candle 🤣🤣🤣

      ~B

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