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coffee-with-cream
coffee-with-cream
16/F/South Africa
Cross leg with straight posture, Emotion-wreck composed demeanour, Taking a seat with wonder, Staring at the clock stagger, Pleasuring as the paint dry On the walls, wailing a cry. Cause of the tired reception music? Or that small mistakes result in his antics. Gaslighting me, recommending time away. Insulting me, letting illness get its way. To find the sickness, the toxicity stays. Spreads and sours as the cure stares Cold, dead eye, preventing us to dare To set you, me, us free. Tears stray from my facade and sour Into the light from the reluctant opening door. I wait a second for my battered will To redeem my days of wait, to sell More of my youth for someone of ill return. His psych-love prepping to leave me more burned. Until I learn to protect my mental health over an ill-tempered man's ego... "Baby I'm sorry, please don't go", I say.
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Feb 19, 2025
Feb 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM UTC
Doctor Love's Reception
In the shade of my freshly grown ******* the protection from the rays of the camera flash doesn't decrease the heat, it intensifies it, at best And the flood of sweat drowns my skin in a flash The contours of my ***** create a valley A bigger valley he wants as he demands I stretch my **** They don't after I repeatedly rally them. “I can't!” He slaps me. My face etch. More pictures, he wants, of me playing with my ******* My ****** the tiny rubbery pips sieve thought my small fingers, surveying my hand. As the man captures this awkward discovery. Packs the camera and gives the money, my fee Then he grabs and hisses to me to tell nobody
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Nov 19, 2022
Nov 19, 2022 at 4:58 PM UTC
Child ***********
If love for your people Becomes hatred for others Aren’t you causing more enemies for yourself? If love for our nation Becomes the unifying song for us all Aren’t you forging a more peaceful nation for us?
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Sep 8, 2022
Sep 8, 2022 at 3:58 PM UTC
Nationalism
For we so fearful, let me lead with caution to the truth your mind feels needs protection against. We’re fenced in and can't get out to be fully liberated. Yes, fully, not this half liberated we overexaggerated which made us blind to our institutionalized minds. The Phala-Phalas know this, so this gang always reminds us about 27 years, making us their voter slaves. Until we realise Mandela took his party with him in his grave, there's a Hendrik that keeps our rainbow apart. Even if unity is the deepest desire of our hearts!
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Sep 8, 2022
Sep 8, 2022 at 3:55 PM UTC
Liberation South Africa
The real prophets are dying The fake prophets are living Man rather render services to sin To be immortal, gods of their own, wherein Man should martyr for the cause of goodness Where’s the benefit of that if you’re lifeless.
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Sep 6, 2022
Sep 6, 2022 at 9:42 PM UTC
The Price of Goodness
My envious eye breaks my heart When Romeo takes Juliet’s hand in his, studies her eyes like the stars, Breathes her scent, rich and sweet Jasmine sings Slowly settles his lips on her Kisses that Juliet under the moon's watchful eye While my envious eye breaks my heart My eyes start to sweat from the hard labor of jealousy Will ever love, will I ever feel joy, will I ever have what Romeo has? Romeo’s envious eye breaks his heart When I hold the delicate flower in my palm Observing how live courses thought Mother Nature Breathing in the fresh morning dew Then gently place my ***** on the grass Drinking in the warm eye of heaven While Romeo’s envious eye breaks his heart For he will never get to live again, to love again At least for Romeo, he can coldly caress Juliet’s corpse.
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Aug 16, 2022
Aug 16, 2022 at 3:33 PM UTC
Envious eyes
That band is in town again Calling residents with the cream-white light Creeping thought the boarded up windows Of the Bar on Muddy Water Str. Calling residents with their groaning guitars In a sorrowful solo, making midnight sky darker And the melancholic lyrics sang in heavy hearted harmony, quieting the rest of Muddy Water Str. Being the dim beacon luring us in Being the only sound that rung in our ears All the residents took a sit in the bar And Blues and liquor drunk Muddy Water Str. That band drowned us in depression, today Yet another band will wring us dry, tomorrow
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Aug 15, 2022
Aug 15, 2022 at 9:40 PM UTC
That band is in town
Tired of all the conservatives and the progressives They pass in the screaming and fail to listen Between their differences There is men who want they same thing Humble yourself, why are you too prideful Yes, too prideful, to listen to your brother And so prideful, you need to **** us with all your words To shield your ego or to comfort your fears I don’t want the right to be heard I want the right to be listened to Deceived by big mouths with some sort of platform I scream “I want to be listened to! I want to be listened to! I want, I want…” But it’s when I lose my voice I realise there is 7 billion people screaming The exact same notion The notion will never come to motion Until we listen to the 7 billion people Until we see the Berlin Wall between white and black Fall down to the power of using our two ears Fully, with no imperfections The clear crisp words of another brother Caressing the ear of another brother Blocking the hatred of the mind Allowing the heart to feel for another
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Aug 10, 2022
Aug 10, 2022 at 9:43 AM UTC
Vent
Submissive To the distraction of work Those toxic emotions are there Being silenced and overlooked In the corner of heart Those emotions are empowering herself Soon she’ll be pushing for equality Distraction and denial won’t overpower Sending me into a downwards spiral.
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Aug 4, 2022
Aug 4, 2022 at 10:50 PM UTC
Meek Emotions
Innocence clothes me The sin strips me And I allow it So my friends respect me.
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Jun 20, 2022
Jun 20, 2022 at 1:45 PM UTC
Bare Respect