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siphelele-mbatha
siphelele-mbatha
27/M poems as prayers / whispered, to no one / fill the resounding absence / of you
You loved in pieces, never whole, collecting hearts like trophies on a shelf. Every promise was borrowed time, every “forever” a carefully crafted lie. Now you walk alone, surrounded by the ruins of people who once believed your name meant home.
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5d ago
May 31, 2026 at 5:43 PM UTC
Serial Cheater
God, I am begging You. Not with the confidence of a faithful man, but with the trembling voice of someone who has run out of answers. I am tired. Tired of telling people that I am okay. Tired of smiling through storms that never seem to pass. Tired of carrying a heart that feels heavier with every sunrise. God, I am begging You. Please do not mistake my silence for strength. The truth is, I have cried alone more times than I can count. I have stared at ceilings late into the night, wondering if my life is ever going to change. Every year, I tell myself, “Maybe this will be my season.” And every year, I watch another door close. God, I am begging You. I do not need a perfect life. I just need a sign that I am not walking alone. A sign that my prayers have not been lost in the wind. A sign that all this waiting has a purpose. Because some days I feel like a candle burning itself away just to create a little light. And I do not know how much wax I have left. I have watched people pass me by. I have watched dreams die quietly. I have watched hope leave without saying goodbye. Still, I kneel before You. Not because I understand. Not because I am strong. But because You are the last place my broken heart knows to go. So God, if You can hear me, find me here. In this lonely chapter. In this season of unanswered questions. In this life that feels stuck between who I was and who I am supposed to become. Touch the places inside me that have grown cold. Speak to the parts of me that no longer believe good things are coming. And if I cannot see the road ahead, carry me. Because I am exhausted. Because I am hurting. Because I am trying. And because tonight, more than ever, God, I am begging You.
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6d ago
May 30, 2026 at 8:34 AM UTC
God, I Am Begging You
God, I am begging You. Not with the confidence of a faithful man, but with the trembling voice of someone who has run out of answers. I am tired. Tired of telling people that I am okay. Tired of smiling through storms that never seem to pass. Tired of carrying a heart that feels heavier with every sunrise. God, I am begging You. Please do not mistake my silence for strength. The truth is, I have cried alone more times than I can count. I have stared at ceilings late into the night, wondering if my life is ever going to change. Every year, I tell myself, “Maybe this will be my season.” And every year, I watch another door close. God, I am begging You. I do not need a perfect life. I just need a sign that I am not walking alone. A sign that my prayers have not been lost in the wind. A sign that all this waiting has a purpose. Because some days I feel like a candle burning itself away just to create a little light. And I do not know how much wax I have left. I have watched people pass me by. I have watched dreams die quietly. I have watched hope leave without saying goodbye. Still, I kneel before You. Not because I understand. Not because I am strong. But because You are the last place my broken heart knows to go. So God, if You can hear me, find me here. In this lonely chapter. In this season of unanswered questions. In this life that feels stuck between who I was and who I am supposed to become. Touch the places inside me that have grown cold. Speak to the parts of me that no longer believe good things are coming. And if I cannot see the road ahead, carry me. Because I am exhausted. Because I am hurting. Because I am trying. And because tonight, more than ever, God, I am begging You.
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God, I am begging You. Not with the confidence of a faithful man, but with the trembling voice of someone who has run out of answers. I am tired. Tired of telling people that I am okay. Tired of smiling through storms that never seem to pass. Tired of carrying a heart that feels heavier with every sunrise. God, I am begging You. Please do not mistake my silence for strength. The truth is, I have cried alone more times than I can count. I have stared at ceilings late into the night, wondering if my life is ever going to change. Every year, I tell myself, “Maybe this will be my season.” And every year, I watch another door close. God, I am begging You. I do not need a perfect life. I just need a sign that I am not walking alone. A sign that my prayers have not been lost in the wind. A sign that all this waiting has a purpose. Because some days I feel like a candle burning itself away just to create a little light. And I do not know how much wax I have left. I have watched people pass me by. I have watched dreams die quietly. I have watched hope leave without saying goodbye. Still, I kneel before You. Not because I understand. Not because I am strong. But because You are the last place my broken heart knows to go. So God, if You can hear me, find me here. In this lonely chapter. In this season of unanswered questions. In this life that feels stuck between who I was and who I am supposed to become. Touch the places inside me that have grown cold. Speak to the parts of me that no longer believe good things are coming. And if I cannot see the road ahead, carry me. Because I am exhausted. Because I am hurting. Because I am trying. And because tonight, more than ever, God, I am begging You.
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6d ago
May 30, 2026 at 8:34 AM UTC
God, I Am Begging You
God, I am begging You. Not with the confidence of a faithful man, but with the trembling voice of someone who has run out of answers. I am tired. Tired of telling people that I am okay. Tired of smiling through storms that never seem to pass. Tired of carrying a heart that feels heavier with every sunrise. God, I am begging You. Please do not mistake my silence for strength. The truth is, I have cried alone more times than I can count. I have stared at ceilings late into the night, wondering if my life is ever going to change. Every year, I tell myself, “Maybe this will be my season.” And every year, I watch another door close. God, I am begging You. I do not need a perfect life. I just need a sign that I am not walking alone. A sign that my prayers have not been lost in the wind. A sign that all this waiting has a purpose. Because some days I feel like a candle burning itself away just to create a little light. And I do not know how much wax I have left. I have watched people pass me by. I have watched dreams die quietly. I have watched hope leave without saying goodbye. Still, I kneel before You. Not because I understand. Not because I am strong. But because You are the last place my broken heart knows to go. So God, if You can hear me, find me here. In this lonely chapter. In this season of unanswered questions. In this life that feels stuck between who I was and who I am supposed to become. Touch the places inside me that have grown cold. Speak to the parts of me that no longer believe good things are coming. And if I cannot see the road ahead, carry me. Because I am exhausted. Because I am hurting. Because I am trying. And because tonight, more than ever, God, I am begging You.
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Not with rope, not with pills, not with the silence of locked rooms but slowly, the way rain destroys stone without ever raising its voice. Let the poet in you ruin your sleep with unfinished thoughts and memories that return like stray dogs at midnight. Let him make you stare too long at sunsets, at train stations, at people who were never yours yet somehow left scars behind. Let him turn your loneliness into ink, your heartbreak into scripture, your rage into something beautiful enough to survive you. Because poets do not die once. They die every time they feel too much. Every time they love without being loved correctly. Every time the world says “move on” while their soul is still writing about the wound. So let the poet in you **** you if it means you leave behind verses that make strangers feel less alone on nights they almost disappeared themselves.
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7d ago
May 29, 2026 at 6:36 PM UTC
Let the poet in you **** you.
He walks like rain belongs to him, like the clouds know his first name. Every streetlight flickers twice when he passes underneath. A man of bad luck keeps old receipts in his pockets, not for money owed, but for memories that never stayed. He has loved people who only visited his heart like strangers stopping for shelter during a storm. The bus leaves when he arrives. The calls come when he’s asleep. His flowers die too early, his good days never stay long enough to learn their own names. Still he wakes up. Still he irons tomorrow into his shirt and walks into the world like hope has never betrayed him before. Because maybe bad luck is not the tragedy. Maybe the tragedy is how a gentle man can survive so much disappointment and still speak softly to the world that keeps breaking him.
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7d ago
May 29, 2026 at 5:49 PM UTC
A Man Of Bad Lucks
You keep folding tomorrow into neat little promises, placing dreams on shelves like books you swear you’ll read someday. You speak of sunsets as if the sky signed a contract to wait for you. As if the people you love will always answer the phone. But life is a thief with soft footsteps. It steals in silence through missed chances, unwritten poems, unsent messages, and hearts that grew tired of waiting. One day you look around and notice the music changed, your mother grew older, your friends became memories, and the mirror learned your father’s face. The tragedy is not that life is short. It’s that you keep acting like it isn’t. So kiss slower. Speak now. Create recklessly. Forgive before pride hardens. Tell people what they meant to you while they can still hear it. Because the clock never argues, never warns, never pauses for grief. It only moves. And the problem is you think you have time.
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May 25
May 25, 2026 at 5:50 AM UTC
The Problem is You Think You Have Time
There are nights where I sit with silence like an unpaid debt, counting every word they threw at me as if they were prophets and I was born to fail. “Loser.” Such a small word for something that can hollow out a man from the inside. They said it when I loved too hard. Said it when I stayed too long. Said it when life bent my knees and I couldn’t hide the shaking. And after enough people call you broken, you start introducing yourself that way to your own reflection. So I walked through life with my head lowered, like the sky itself had something against me. I watched other men move with certainty, with money in their pockets, with confidence in their smiles, while I carried storms inside my chest and called it weakness. No one tells you how exhausting it is to be a man who is still trying to believe he deserves softness too. I became familiar with self-hatred. It sat beside me during long drives home, slept beside me at night, followed me into mirrors and whispered: “You will never be enough.” But still somehow I woke up every morning. Still tied my shoes. Still carried my scars through another day. Still searched for light with tired eyes. Maybe strength is not loud after all. Maybe strength is a man who has been called worthless so many times yet still chooses not to disappear. And maybe healing starts the moment he realizes he was never a loser just human, just hurt, just trying to survive a world that taught him to measure his worth through the eyes of people who never truly saw him.
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May 19
May 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM UTC
The Names They Gave Me
There are nights where I sit with silence like an unpaid debt, counting every word they threw at me as if they were prophets and I was born to fail. “Loser.” Such a small word for something that can hollow out a man from the inside. They said it when I loved too hard. Said it when I stayed too long. Said it when life bent my knees and I couldn’t hide the shaking. And after enough people call you broken, you start introducing yourself that way to your own reflection. So I walked through life with my head lowered, like the sky itself had something against me. I watched other men move with certainty, with money in their pockets, with confidence in their smiles, while I carried storms inside my chest and called it weakness. No one tells you how exhausting it is to be a man who is still trying to believe he deserves softness too. I became familiar with self-hatred. It sat beside me during long drives home, slept beside me at night, followed me into mirrors and whispered: “You will never be enough.” But still somehow I woke up every morning. Still tied my shoes. Still carried my scars through another day. Still searched for light with tired eyes. Maybe strength is not loud after all. Maybe strength is a man who has been called worthless so many times yet still chooses not to disappear. And maybe healing starts the moment he realizes he was never a loser just human, just hurt, just trying to survive a world that taught him to measure his worth through the eyes of people who never truly saw him.
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The hardest kind of tired is not the one that sleeps away. It is the kind that sits quietly behind smiles, behind “I’m fine,” behind every laugh that arrives a second too late. Some nights the world feels too loud to carry. Every thought becomes static, every memory a room you no longer wish to enter. You begin to wonder what silence would feel like. Not because you hate life, but because life has held you with such heavy hands for far too long. Yet somewhere between the breaking and the breathing a small light remains. A stubborn thing. A fragile thing. The part of you that still watches sunsets, still pauses at beautiful songs, still hopes someone will notice the ache behind your eyes. So you stay. Not because it is easy, not because the pain disappears, but because storms have lied before. They always say they are forever. And maybe tomorrow will not heal everything. Maybe the weight will still exist. But maybe there will also be coffee in the morning, music through headphones, someone saying your name gently, or a version of you years from now grateful that you held on through this chapter. So tonight, do not log out. Rest. Cry. Disappear from the noise if you must. But remain here long enough to see what becomes of you when the darkness finally loosens its grip.
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May 17
May 17, 2026 at 6:45 AM UTC
Untitled 4
Some days life feels like a screen left open too long too many tabs, too many voices, too many unfinished conversations asking for pieces of you you no longer know how to give. So you begin to log out. Not loudly. Not with goodbyes or shattered glass. Just slowly like sunsets do. Like a song fading from another room. You stop explaining yourself. Stop chasing people who only loved the version of you that never rested. You let unread messages become silence, let expectations expire on their own. And in the quiet, you finally hear your own heartbeat again. Logging out of life is not always about leaving sometimes it is about returning. Returning to the parts of yourself buried beneath pressure, beneath performance, beneath the exhausting need to always be okay. Maybe healing looks like disappearing for a while. Maybe peace is found in unanswered calls, long walks alone, or staring at the ceiling without pretending you have a plan. The world will continue scrolling. People will continue posting happiness like it never hurts to exist. But you you are allowed to pause. You are allowed to breathe without proving your worth. And when you finally log back in, perhaps you will not return as the same person who left. Perhaps you will return softer. Wiser. More honest. A soul no longer begging to be chosen because it finally chose itself.
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May 17
May 17, 2026 at 6:39 AM UTC
LOGOUT
The world goes quiet at 2 a.m. and your head gets loud enough to drown it. It tells you this is the end of the line, that logging out is the only way to turn it down. But nights don’t get a vote. They always end. Stay for the way the dark gets thin at the edges. Stay for the first bird that doesn’t know you’re hurting and sings anyway. Stay for the coffee that will taste like something when your tongue remembers how. You don’t have to feel better tonight. You just have to stay in the room until morning can argue its case. One hour. One breath. One more sunrise you get to see because you didn’t leave. That’s enough. That’s everything.
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May 17
May 17, 2026 at 6:37 AM UTC
Stay For The Morning