POETRY
We’re The Dream Diggers
—POEM by Charles Lipanda Matenga
(Translated from Swahili)
Refugee camps are pearly dark graves of dreams,
And we’re the dream diggers;
We’ve been frustrated and frosted to dampen our streams,
Frittering on frisking us as if we have daggers.
Refugee camps are pearly dark graves of dreams,
And we’re the dream seekers;
Like tornados, our life is turbulent in turmoil,
Coiling and toiling books,
With hope to leak the confined barriers,
For you’re but oblivious,
That travel documents are as blighted as the great wall.
Refugee camps are full of snags and hitches,
We’re the solution influencers,
And human rights claimant;
There is a need for a gesture of SOLIDARITY
For the resolutions towards our goal.
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(Self-translation from SWAHILI)
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Charles Lipanda Matenga
Born on 2nd July 2005 in Rwenena, Sud-Kivu, DR CONGO and raised an orphan and he is now a refugee in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi. Charles Lipanda Matenga is a student. He is one of the slam poets around the world. He has brought poetry around the world by his performances of national and international events like Our Talents, Our Advocacy Festival, Tumaini Festival, Zomba city Festival, United Nations Day Commemoration 2023, National Youth Policy Launch, 5th World Poetry Conference India where he was conferred as the Master of Creative Consciousness, Inspired Poetry corner Canada. Charles is a published and multi awarded Poet, Writer, performer, Editor and Author of “Being Refugee Wasn’t a Choice Anthology and Our Voice Is Our Catalyst”.
Charles Lipanda Matenga is the founder and president of African Youth Artistic Poetry – AYAP based in Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi. Where Poetry and English are taught to orphaned refugee children and youth.
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