Poetry – Azaria Spencer

I see you

27th June 202327th June 2023

I see you in the details of my life.I see you when I wake up in this beautiful apartment,to a life I used to dream about. You provide in abundance. I see you in the captivating hummingbirds.I see you as they dance around my balconyand drink the sweet water.Yours is the water of life. I see you in the calm, tranquil moments.I see you when the busyness of life can’t have me,when it subsides and there is clam.You are there …

Rwanda and her people

16th May 202224th July 2013

A poem written after visiting a genocide site in Rwanda July 2013 I saw the damage where the door had been blown open,I saw the shrapnel where the grenades left their mark,I saw the piles, so many piles of clothes,I saw the bloodstains, and the dust and rubble, I saw the flowers left to remember loved ones,I saw the resting places of thousands of people,I saw the rows and rows of broken skulls,I saw the mounds and piles of bones,I saw …