FREE VERSE Poem: GREAT GRAND FATHER, by Katusiime Jeresi

When you lived in the mind of God
You were a hyperventilating swirling thought
Desperate to be born of Man
You chose to signal your entrance
Through the Orion
You shine,the night you were born left
Eyes captivated and necks craned

Now you murmur in the mutuba tree
Your voice a soft susurrous wind rustling the tree’s leaves
No longer a capricious thought but a dominant memory
In the lives you still touch.
Your burial was a show
On cue, a twig breaks from one of the branches
And hits the middle of my head
As if you just read my thoughts

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