Tsetse-Bumba
Touched with the feelings of man's infirmity
Before we came, deity by another name
Made ill by loneliness, for without socialability
Nothing is perfect, your love did proclaim
And love you purged you, made you vomit
And sun and moon and stars danced out of it
And earth wingless came, sprayed from it
And nine living creatures crawled around in it.
And the loneliness went away, and you the first
Big One filling yourself before you made the sky
By love reversed the sickness of the universe
And became God when creatures crowd your eye
And you Tsetse-Bumba
The friendly
Andyou Tsetse-Bumba
The respectful
And you Tsetse-Bumba
From the vomit
Exalted humanity,
The finite, to dwell in eternity,
And Nyonye-Ngana was there
And Chonganda was there
And Chedi-Bumba was there
And loneliness again was no where.
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