Dear Editor,
Dedicated to Red Thread
The world needs Mothering.
It looks to the mother only when faltering
It becomes her fault, her age-long failing
After, after the Fathering of wars and their
tools,
urgent space ventures, just in time
vicariously fleeing the begotten social
order
to find through weather, if when and
whether
bunkers are safer higher or lower
Budgeting is care giving; caring and
mothering
cut and contriving
measuring, not under-stocking,
running out of rice, like the world in our
time
Care giving is not sporting; it is working
Working long hours, shift into shift
Without shut-eye
laying the base of surviving
Sitting with the sick in silence, listening
The low pulse, the barely breathing
-in our own native Space
new horrors in making, large disrespecting
killing and sealing, raping and icing
walking and falling, falling and bleeding
disgracing and lying.
\we and the world needing mothering
all-round care-giving.
Yours faithfully,
Eusi Kwayana
