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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459494" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Zimbabwean asks a question</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">O Great Spirit, <br>You who in Your form of the Chapungu, <br>the great eagle with sharper eye than any aeroplane, <br>watches over us and knows all things; <br>who even descends from your great circles of flight<br>over our beautiful land of stone and earth and tree<br>to show a child lost in the bush<br>the way back to the village and to home, <br>please show us, too, the way back home, to You.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You know I talk to you each day in my heart, <br>but today a man has asked me to speak some words<br>that many people may hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So I speak for Zimbabwe, and for the Africa<br>of which we are so proud: <br>for we in Africa are proud; and proud for You: <br>that in a mad and busy world, we have not forgotten<br>that every blade of grass and flower, <br>lizard, singing bird, lion, elephant, <br>are You in all your great disguises<br>and that all that we see around us<br>is You in the spirits of our ancestors<br>who listen to us and guide us; <br>and so we know that we must listen<br>to every creature to hear news of You...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the evening of each day<br>(which, we cannot now forget, may be our last) <br>as the men come home from work <br>and the women and children back from the fields, <br>and the smoke from the evening fires<br>rises above the huts, <br>and the smells of cooking fill the air, <br>we tell all our children round the fire<br>the truth about You<br>in all the tales our fathers and grandfathers have told us -<br>told to these children who have so recently come from You; <br>by those grandparents who will so soon come back to You; <br>they have so much to share and listen to, <br>about You! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">And would you not agree, O Great Spirit, <br>that the smile of an African child<br>is the biggest thing you ever saw - or made? <br>It reminds every mother and father of Your smile, <br>and tells every grandparent what is in store for them...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So we rejoice to think, O Great Spirit, <br>that we are still your children, <br>and that You know what is best for us -</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And so I ask you, especially today, O Great Spirit, <br>for all who may read this: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Are the spirits angry with us? <br>If they are, please tell me why? <br>And so, what can we do to stay close to You? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Many men have many answers to these questions<br>in the reasoning of men; <br>but nothing from men quite seems to 'do the trick'; <br>so now, I'm simply asking You<br>to speak in Your own way; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">since nothing from men quite seems to 'do the trick'; <br> <br>and, O Great Spirit, <br>Chapungu, <br>it is Your world, which we look after, and not ours...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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You who in Your form of the Chapungu, 
the great eagle with sharper eye than any aeroplane, 
watches over us and knows all things; 
who even descends from your great circles of flight
over our beautiful land of stone and earth and..."></div>
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