Arts & Culture
Farewell Fidel...
By Obediah Michael Smith
Nov 29, 2016 - 8:09:55 PM
















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 tires on the road,
out of all the tires 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


© Bahamian poet Obediah Michael Smith, 2016
Saturday 11:53 a.m. 26.11.16
In Blantyre, Malawi.

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