{"id":3073,"date":"2026-10-26T21:47:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=3073"},"modified":"2026-10-26T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T21:47:14","slug":"i-heard-the-bank-was-painted-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/?p=3073","title":{"rendered":"I Heard the Bank Was Painted Last Year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" src=\"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-23-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-23-2.png 1920w, https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-23-2-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-23-2-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-23-2-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blockspaceballads.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Picture-23-2-1536x864.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Ndinoda munda wemugan\u2019a, penga penga<br>Hoiyere ndopenga ramba kupenga<br>Unobuda magwere akasimba, penga penga<br>Hoiyere ndopenga, chiramba kupenga<br>Tsvimborume munaHwiru, penga penga<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\"> Hallelujah Chicken Run Band, \u201cNdopenga\u201d (1974)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Rukudzo Onai<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Famished forests smoke and howl<br>in the broken circuit of earth, water and fire<br>downstream footprints bloodied in black<br>by vulture talons that mine out of turn<br>I sweep burnt forests for the path least likely<br>there got to be a next-door earth for lovers<br>where rainbirds weave dreams in full color<br>strangers looking for it don\u2019t stop for directions<br>to never circle back the way you came<br>is the only path there is in famine<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have walked back into the sun I came in<br>I have borrowed your eyes to see my shadow leave<br>I have accepted chaos to feel myself again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mbira masters walked Guruuswa when green was gold<br>translating riversong to give names to all the animals<br>their red-earth heaven is today my seamless desert<br>I raise their greetings from another time, ghosts<br>mirrored on smoking silt, always never here, maybe<br>ancestor-forsaken feet that today trample memory<br>have not been to the next-door earth for lovers<br>where rainbirds weave dreams in full colour<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have walked back into the sun I came in<br>I have borrowed your eyes to see my shadow leave<br>I have accepted chaos to feel myself again<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have circled back the way I came<br>no longer wise to what undead scenes flood<br>the broken circuit of spirit, wind and fire<br>in the sacred distance a desert mermaid<br>enchants what last water was last heard to flow<br>where Mashayanhengeni shades Gute in balding blue<br>love drown me into the arms of a desert mermaid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Something of laughter in the night<br>dizzy and distracted, burdens my song<br>nothing like the bullish-brew abandon<br>that swells the last throes of drumbeat<br>at the threshing floor. something of impossible<br>nostalgia, of ghosts floating dry yesterdays<br>and borrowed civilizations. by the rivers<br>of Rhodesia, I knead out of my griot-time gourd<br>a mbira montage of moods and seasons<br>I rinse out of my nyunga-mbira gourd<br>a clothesline that drips yesterday in color<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dark river sacred and unknowable<br>is the desert mermaid\u2019s lair but I am<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feverish wind courses the gourd\u2019s dry veins<br>indeterminate distance between<br>morning red and moonshine grey<br>the distance in my song conjures yesterday\u2019s<br>rugged shards of crickets on waking greens<br>tender warbles spread across after-rain blue<br>drifting clouds of sea-blue charinga birds<br>embroidered in cornsilk-yellow overhead<br>weaving above me a choreography of shapes<br>lending to my songs their own impatient rasp<br>all in a distant yesterday\u2019s color-letting clothesline<br>mbira masters walked Guruuswa but I run it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dark river sacred and unknowable<br>is the desert mermaid\u2019s lair but I am<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forever today is a sinister joke<br>demanding of me strange laughter<br>to echo shards of life already slipped out of hand<br>don\u2019t accompany me to Chiwara<br>the grey tropics tangled with my umblical cord<br>halfway my bloodied soles will pick up yesterday<br>under the mukute tree that married sun and song<br>before green days were shaded by money trees<br>love drown me into the tail of a desert mermaid<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dark river sacred and unknowable<br>is the desert mermaid\u2019s lair but I am<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Don\u2019t accompany me to Chiwara<br>the grey tropics tangled with my umblical cord<br>VaMuchoni was buried outside the village<br>the wandering-bachelor spirit had plagued him<br>would be too much for a small family to inherit<br>did I pick his wavelength, herding by Mungezi, maybe<br>the exes curve me halfway across the village<br>and endure my best poems at the speed of silence<br>I heard the banking hall was painted last year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The dark river sacred and unknowable<br>is the nappy-afro mermaid\u2019s lair but I am<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<br>happy to bleed because pain is proof of life<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hands up if God wrote a kill switch into your dreams<br>to snap just when you feel home in dreamland<br>dreams were made to be streamed not downloaded<br>spools of words to bind the liar in secondhand lies<br>I can no longer be by seeing and speaking so I am<br>happy to fall hard just to see I had been on my feet<br>for your own truth to grate the truth in my own heart<br>but this left-sided pain, nappy-afro mermaid, is physical<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>3.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I grazed my thumbs on the broken mbira<br>colors in my head spilled into a blurry screenshot<br>the nappy-afro mermaid awakening bloody waters<br>the river zinged from the rain god\u2019s flamethrower<br>the whirlwind picked my thoughts before they could<br>crawl into the safety of words and fallbacks<br>love drowned me along for an organic walkthrough<br>but a mermaid\u2019s arms are nothing like oil on canvas<br>my heart feels only the love that I suffer<br>my heart suffers only the love that is impossible<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sun is set in place<br>in the sunflower\u2019s solar dreams<br>dreams never fade out<br>when happiness can\u2019t be found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I said my part too soon<br>love never has the stage sense to tell<br>whether time is faster than life<br>or life longer than time<br>soon is always already too late<br>when love has taken over your life<br>after time has overtaken your love<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sun is set in place<br>in the sunflower\u2019s solar dreams<br>dreams never fade out<br>when happiness can\u2019t be found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I said my part too late<br>I just couldn\u2019t see past the one day<br>that stayed always ever one day<br>one day for me to tell what my life is<br>before the rain love is forgotten<br>sooner than a passenger\u2019s umbrella<br>late is always ever too soon<br>between a thousand last meals<br>between tables hesitantly clothed<br>with the last shred of dignity<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sun is set in place<br>in the sunflower\u2019s solar dreams<br>dreams never fade out<br>when happiness can\u2019t be found<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I said my part between two mistakes<br>my truth will blush to prove its love<br>and my love bleed to prove its truth<br>the star-crossed can still count stars<br>and soak the moon that demystifies dreams<br>in the zinging rain, let\u2019s lock our burning bloom<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sun is set in place<br>in the sunflower\u2019s solar dreams<br>dreams never fade out<br>when happiness can\u2019t be found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t want to capsize under my ex\u2019s bridge<br>beauty is stretched to pixelation<br>when the pauper dreams of the princess<br>I sneeze to remember her coldness<br>I have been under the bus longer than a mechanic<br>I have craned over the hedge to curve my landlord<br>I could only say my part between two blindsides<br>nappy-afro mermaid, swim out of that blur<br>my eyes can survive your dimpled smile<br>before you muddy your back 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