Sticky wicket

Two brave men bat
Against terror
With black arm bands
On a sticky wicket.

Showing the world
The ashes of their land
Showing the petty prattlers
The decency of truth.

Zimbabwe is under terror
All their people know it
Yet the arms that should
Wear black bands
Are merely stumped
Into confusion.

Yet two brave men
Stand together
Caught against terror
And show the truth
Of their commitment,
That honesty
Bowls out tyranny.