A Sticky Note for Maru

For Advocate Tshiamo Moremogolo Marukgwane

For the hearts you stole
and flowers you danced
and the wind your raced against
now eternal peace covers you

A jazz note lands on the corner of the page
a hip hop groove delivers us to the edge of the sunset,
where poets and greybeards kneel
to honour the name you carry between your lips

For when “Maru passed,
even God understood”