The boys and the smiling bread beam
-Lungi Shigo Msusa
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The boys and the smiling bread beam
A house on an empty town on a hill
Kids more than the house could hold
Tells a story of years of neglect
The kitchen hopelessly needs repairs
The remoteness of the town helps not
The pride of ownership doesn’t either
But today is pay day on the mines
The boys are already talking about it
Though presents are stories from old books in the attic for the boys,
the bread beam is smiling,
It loves the smell of fresh bread and butter,
it loves the proud looks on the boys’s faces today
The laughter around the table will be different today thanks to Tata and the old mine
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