Happiness Come Soon
Ruvimbo Mutyambizi (MaiMo)
Yes, breathing still.
But robbed of empowerment
and called sneakily resourceful.
Abandoned by the witness
of my last strengths that I’ve used,
to try my best and hardest.
I lie criminalised,
for my fall from land to sea.
- And claim.
Hope stands far.
Away,
hidden from me.
This is crisis
and I do not know
if I should be one to survive.
Digging, no depth, into abyss.
Child separated and family separated.
Forgive me. It makes me too sad.
I can’t act like you
or think like you because
my feelings are mottled
with the absence.
Hiding so much that has been trapped for a lifetime
by the requirements of resilience.
Yearning to be of worth
to you my child.
We are a beat in each other’s hearts.
But abysmal is the fall of asylum
without my child.
Who is now somewhere
I cannot know.
Happiness, please, come soon.
But robbed of empowerment
and called sneakily resourceful.
Abandoned by the witness
of my last strengths that I’ve used,
to try my best and hardest.
I lie criminalised,
for my fall from land to sea.
- And claim.
Hope stands far.
Away,
hidden from me.
This is crisis
and I do not know
if I should be one to survive.
Digging, no depth, into abyss.
Child separated and family separated.
Forgive me. It makes me too sad.
I can’t act like you
or think like you because
my feelings are mottled
with the absence.
Hiding so much that has been trapped for a lifetime
by the requirements of resilience.
Yearning to be of worth
to you my child.
We are a beat in each other’s hearts.
But abysmal is the fall of asylum
without my child.
Who is now somewhere
I cannot know.
Happiness, please, come soon.
Ruvimbo Mutyambizi (MaiMo) founded For Her Child, set up to challenge separation of refugee children from their families. Ruvimbo’s was separated from her son in this way without remedy. Based in the UK and originally from Zimbabwe, Ruvimbo enjoys poetry, children’s storytelling, live performance, song-writing, and art as modes of expressing the many colours of life. Ruvimbo’s creative name is MaiMo, in homage to her roots and to the mother child bond.
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