© Duane W. Udd: 6th July, 2001 | DOWNLOAD

Through dark hours of lengthy labour
Pangs increase intensity
Husband family friend or neighbour
Need to know their frequency

Suffering should shed its silence
Angst or anguish should be shared
To end all needless violence
Minds like bodies may be bared

Shame despised as joy beyond it
Helps us to endure our cross
Hope and patience have great merit
Even in the face of loss

Barrenness will be behind us
Fruitful years stretch far ahead
Though for now we face a huge fuss
New life will spring forth instead

From the Source of all creation
Flows our creativity
Giving birth brings great elation
Like our Lord’s Nativity

Kings like Herod still may threaten
Till God terminates their terms
Causes now seem so uncertain
Hateful Herod died of worms

God will still preserve our offspring
They will rise to call us blest
Faith must be our mighty mainspring
Through travail or trial and test

Angels need make no announcement
Labour bears laughter and mirth
Strong Zim women make pronouncement
Of Zimbabwe’s bright rebirth