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 Aug 18 Khoisan
Ro Maway
Writing poems to escape the Babel tower

Babylon oh Babylon

Growing up, you made me believe
That in order to succeed
I had to roll up my sleeves
And have a sharp intellect

I’m not saying that you’re all wrong
But building your tower
Meant abandoning mine at rush hour
So I never truly grew along

Saying that I hate you is an understatement
Because what you’ve created
Left me with so much resentment
Not only for you and I, but for others too

You want me to chase the sun
Not by all means; I might get burned
I must follow your labyrinth
Take the long run

When i look at Zion
You get jealous
You go out of your way
To remind me who’s el patrón

For many you are a saviour
For some you are the devil
For me you are a prison I need to escape
I need my freedom back
Please, I need to feel alive

Babylon oh Babylon

-94
 Aug 18 Khoisan
Soph
My Fault
 Aug 18 Khoisan
Soph
Why can't you
ever help me
when I'm down?
But I would
always help you
no matter what time.

Are you
losing interest?
Do you not love me
anymore?
We used to
talk all the time
Now it's just  
dead silence
between me
an you.

Or is it me?
Do you feel like this
about me too?
Maybe it is
all my fault.
 Aug 18 Khoisan
Jimmy silker
There's a dance
Dynamic
When you live
With people
Up and down
And maybe
Right and left
All around
A trade off
In noise
And smells
And habits and such
So many come and go
In this grand rabbit hutch.
,Kindness,
Good deeds,
Service to others and
Empathy,
Are your investments here on earth,
For best returns in afterlife.
18/8/2025
Has your soul ever been displayed,
Framed by thick wooden-glazed borders,
and set up in the gallery of another's life?

Can you say the painting of you
Beams with joy through heavy clouds,
Sliced by sharp shards of glass-like light?

If not, may you then brush-up yourself,
Quick blots of pink on sunken cheeks,
Lighten the shade under each eye?

Or will you draw the curtain,
Blind me to me, and you to you,
Pinch out the last flicker of fight?
In the wildest place,
my mouth stopped with stars,
I came to the end of words;
the parched mint, bitter
paper plank

where I lost my balance,
on one foot teetering
along that roadway where gold-
flashing fireflies stand effortlessly
on air

to send their fragile signal
out,
every night a nocturne
of one less
til I and the last firefly

danced alone
in the wildest place
sending our last ignition
out
to find our kind

or else fall quiet
and one
with the wild that
will neither be spelled
nor known.




©joyannjones June 2023
 Aug 18 Khoisan
Christopher
Heavy, is your loss
"Pitter-Patter" of claws, silent
A lack of weight, weighs.
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