Even if
The Scales face me. The omnipotent judge studying the gavel of life and death, Like a favoured toy. ‘Even if. . .’ We sit, Towering above earth and air, As land and living offer themselves,...
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All your actions were smooth rocks at the river bank. They didn’t hurt but left a mark of once upon a pain. Took place inside my flesh and froze up my bones, left me too exposed even to expose my own...
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I walk the streets of Kayamandi and realise that freedom is in our unconscious minds. I think freedom is trying to tell us something – that having freedom is not really for the smart It is actually for...
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I have a beautiful smile. Rooted in bitterness and sorrow it was a seed that was planted in anger and pain and a flower that was grown in hatred and discouragement. I am intelligent, beautiful and...
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Strolling through darkness As life at present is at mess Found myself actless though willing ableness Dressed in dark clouds gourments Could handle drift into silence recollect While the past, present...
View ArticleSien ek jou
As die son verduister in ’n ewigheid van donker, en die sterre verklaar hul lig sonder woorde. Dan sien ek jou. As die strand se suis verdof onder die geweld van mensdom, en die swewende meeue hul...
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Greetings, I am not here to perform neither to tell a story, but to bring a close up, a focus into a farfetched reality that some of us run away from or mask through. A reality of how we have failed to...
View ArticleHara-kiri
I saw you today Where you left me last And I know That you saw me too And I felt it again All the pain and despair That I felt when you said we were through Since then I've grown old Among hard hostile...
View ArticleThis is the suicide note I will never write
This is the suicide note I will never write This is my choose life poem, my enough poem Enough hollow dreams that drive me to solo Conversations with broken versions of me Enough learning what it feels...
View ArticleInkomo Zobawo
Zimnkil’ Inkomo Zobawo, nditsho imihlambi Imihlaba yabaliphupha kuthi thina banini bayo, Kumthi wobuntu ebesisakuba yintlaka kuwo Sohlukaniswa ngondleb’ ezikhanyilanga sabazintlanga, Izinto apha...
View ArticlediNaledi/ Stars
Strolling through darkness As life at present is at mess Found myself actless though willing ableness Dressed in dark clouds gourments Could handle drift into silence recollect While the past, present...
View ArticleSien ek jou
As die son verduister in ’n ewigheid van donker, en die sterre verklaar hul lig sonder woorde. Dan sien ek jou. As die strand se suis verdof onder die geweld van mensdom, en die swewende meeue hul...
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