Ndongolera C. Mwangupili

Published: July 12th, 2015

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Ndongolera C. Mwangupili is a new poet, emerging from Malawi with a unique voice. Some of his poems and essays have been published locally in anthologies and newspapers. One of his poems, 'Letters to a Comrade', is published online in India on www.openroadreview.in. His other poems also appear on whispersinthewind333.blogspot.com and https://eunoiareview.wordpress.com. One of his poems is published in Belgium in a collection titled 'The Aquillrelle Wall of Poetry of passion and romance, members’ anthology'. He currently works as a Senior Inspector of Schools in Malawi.

Before a Candle I Stand

I
Before a smothering candle-light
I stand…
I only stand
wondering why I lit the candle
and the light,
the rejected light,
is losing
its raison detre.

Can light be
smothered
with a corrupt air?
can the land of flames
be smothered by corrosion?

II
May be, man is really
the measure
of all things, good and evil,
if he is really
the master on earth.

In him both
darkness and light
are measured.

There is darkness
within his light

And this
is his down fall…
as I stand
before his smothering candle-light.