Mother No More –Poem by Betty Makoni
Mother No
More –Poem by Betty Makoni
Poem is
dedicated to a two year old daughter whose mothe(Mary Mushapaidzi) was murdered
by her father .Please see story below. I saw her Mother when Marsha
hosted a dinner for me to meet with Zimbabweans during my US tour
fundraising for my charity,Girl Child Network Worldwide . I am pained to know
Mary Mushapaidzi is gone. I will give this poem to her daughter when she
can read and write and starts asking what took her mother.
At age
two you stopped being a daughter
At age
nine I stopped being a daughter
My mother
stopped being a mother
Your
mother stopped being a mother
This poem
is from a forty year old daughter who for four decades mourns on
To a two
year old daughter who for four and more decades mourns on
Mother No
More, this message I write for decades to come
A two
year old daughter who does not know No More means gone forever
Gone
forever means never coming back, Never on this earth again
Daughter
who will ask, `What did my mother look like ?`
Whereupon
I will answer `Met at Marsha place, was just a passerby and she kept angelic
smile`
Here is
photo, five of us here, she kept her smile.`
She will
ask` Is that all you saw on her?`
Whereupon
I will say,` Yes angels smile and go.`
I will
tell her the rest is news after news
Same
gruesome murder in the home
Same
father and same anger
But for
me and her, Mother No More
When you
have to be daughter and mother
When you
mother you as a daughter
When
Motherhood is No More ,Mother is No More
Motherhood
stops, slips away
Always
slippery, always so easily
Motherhood
gives, fatherhood takes
Mother No
More is history for two year old girl
Now this
picture with five of us mothers I will give
But your
Mother No more here
Mother No
more is what we all have to tell a two year old girl
Title of
poem is taken from my autobiography where I learnt of my mother `s death in
similar circumstances
The
newspaper story
Man who
allegedly beat girlfriend to death charged with murder
By KOMO
Staff Published: Oct 11, 2011 at 1:42 PM PDT Last
Updated: Oct 11, 2011 at 6:17 PM PDT
TACOMA,
Wash. -- A 38-year-old man who prosecutors say beat his girlfriend to death and
then burned her body in an effort to hide the evidence pleaded not guilty to
first-degree murder Tuesday.
A judge
ordered Mthulisi Ndlovu held on $1 million bail.
Prosecutors
say the murder came to light when Ndlovu went to the Bonney Lake police station
late Sunday morning to report Mary Mushapaidzi had gone missing after an early
morning jog.
Officers
followed Ndlovu back to his duplex and noted it smelled as if plastic had been
burned, but Ndlovu claimed he'd been burning junk mail on the garage floor,
according to court documents.
But the
neighbor who lives in the other duplex unit told officers he heard loud banging
in the unit Saturday night shortly after Ndlovu arrived home and another
neighbor reported hearing yelling and what sounded like someone being beaten
with a bat, but decided not to call police because he didn't hear gunshots,
prosecutors said.
Detectives
obtained a search warrant and upon entering Ndlovu's home, found blood streaks
on a stairway leading to the garage. As they followed the trail, they
discovered a burn barrel in the garage that contained human remains,
prosecutors said, along with separated pruning shears that had been apparently
used as a weapon against the victim.
Prosecutors
say Ndlovu later admitted to investigators that when he returned home Saturday,
he and Mushapaidzi argued about dirty dishes. He claimed she struck him in the
face with her purse, at which time he knocked her to the floor, climbed on top
of her and punched her several times, eventually killing her, according to
prosecutors.
After
realizing she was dead, Ndlovu put her body into the burn barrel and later lit
her on fire, prosecutors said. Investigators say the couple's 2- and 8-year-old
children were home at the time of the attack. They are both now in protective
custody.
Prosecutors
say Ndlovu has no criminal history and there is no evidence of prior domestic
violence with the couple.
"It's
overwhelming. It seems so far-fetched. It's like it's not reality," said
family friend Marsha Mutisi. "It seems out of character for him with the
details that we're all finding out, but there's a lot that's not known."
If
convicted, Ndlovu faces 22 to 27 years in prison. The case is not eligible for
the death penalty
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