Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 27, 2026

Plagued by an Energy Pandemic

Taken from the poet’s upcoming book titled, "The Birds That Never Learned To Fly: We Have No More Tears", poems touching on such issues as critical energy challenges bedeviling South Africa and Zimbabwe, mounting frustration and disgruntlement of the citizens, and the beauty of nature.

Plagued by an Energy Pandemic

Lord, have mercy on us,
there is a lousy, drowsy load of load
shedding crisis that has snowballed
into a daily disruptive, piteous plague.

Our prayer seeks to push out an energy
pandemic that preys on the powerless peoples
of Zimbabwe and South Africa, it reigns supreme
by virtue of an acute lack of pragmatism and vision.

It is like the mad mutations of the Covid-19 pandemic,
an energy pandemic that plunges sanity into insanity,
happiness into helplessness, productivity into paralysis,
homesickness into haziness, brightness into bleakness.







Article © Ndaba Sibanda. All rights reserved.
Published in the August 15, 2022 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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