I read with a lot of enthusiasim the poem by a budding poet who through his artistic talent has managed to mirror the state affairs in our Zimbabwe.The poem represents one of the many voices that continue to be silenced when they dare speak out their minds.We continue to live in a state where political power continues to be gained through the back of the button stick, where to qoute poet shoes lambada “politicians continue to shun majority rule and treat the majority as one fool”.We indeed have moved from the Great Zimbabwe that we loved to Zimbabwe ruins, from the once sun shine now shit of Harare.

Lord be our Sherpherd!

The poem by Cosmos Mairosi clearly typifies the Mugabe character in the world of politics. The clear message is of a population that had been cowed by one man and his cronies. Yet he stood so high like a giant colossus. All the pro-democratic forces can do now is inhouse fighting and squabbling. The struggles within the struggle will not help us so much, especially when we are few months from synchronised elections.

Wondered why the elections were synchronised at this stage. Realised that there was a lot of fighting with the ruling elite, Mugabe realised that his survival was not guaranteed. He was not sure whether the factions would support him and campaign for him. As usual Mugabe emerged the schemer by binding his MPs and his fate together. You campaign for yourself in the name of ZANU-PF, you campaign for Mugabe. But whether we covertly or overtly revere him, we must not at all costs idiolise him because he has been feeding on that since independence. Remember when our mothers woke up so early because the saviour was to address at the local growth point? Why do we forget when we made him into a god? We never used to bother to know about or engage in democratic discourse back then, and yet we were making him immortal.

The question is always on what course of action to do, to rally behind the formidable opposition that is available, not as its supporters but as a way out. Let’s guard against creating cults behind our political leadership, we once did it and let’s be weary. MDC must press for those in the diaspora to vote . Remember that you are negotiating with a devil at the table, and when you are eating with Judahs be carefully you might be poisoned. Alexander, yes, gave some concessions at one point but they were – too little too late.