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 Mar 2015 Thato
Lennox Jones
Nothing
 Mar 2015 Thato
Lennox Jones
sometimes i sit down
at my laptop or typewriter
and nothing happens.
that’s all we ever want isn’t it –
something to happen?

Then it comes in trickle
Then into a flood
Sometimes it’s love
Sometimes it’s blood

mostly it’s you that
runs through my veins
that spurts from my wrists
and on to the page

all it takes sometimes
is to just let it be.
a world without you
there would be no me

and through all of the
waiting for something
to happen, i’ve found
out of the nothing
always comes something.
 Mar 2015 Thato
Bridget Allyson
He watches me.
Dark or light.
He stands, he waits.
Waits for what?
Last night he smiled at me,
I asked him why.
He told me a story of a girl
Who sounded awfully like me.
"One day she will realize why I am here," He said.
And still he watches me.
Dark or light.
He stands, he waits.
Three years ago I had asked him why,
If I ask again now he won't respond.
"Who are you?" I ask,
"Some one important," He says.
And still he watches me.
Dark or light.
He stands, he waits.
Twelve years I had asked him who he was.
I grow weaker.
My days on earth are numbered.
I am hooked to IVs and still he stands.
And waits.
When I close my eyes for the last time, I realize who he is.
 Mar 2015 Thato
Bridget Allyson
Everyone forgets your name
The name never spoken
The name never said

The name that sang songs
Too beautiful for the ear
The name that waltzes on every tongue
The name that’s like a being
Like a creature that hides
Only to be seen by chosen

This name that is never said
This name that is never spoken—
Only remember this:

Everyone forgets.
Another poem I wrote weeks before deciding to put it in my book.
 Mar 2015 Thato
Poetic T
I must write,
No I must bleed
"Maybe fingers"
Upon the page,
No,
No,
No,
This not do,
I must show
"Must understand"
What other voices
Say,
Speak,
Show,
All that which breathes
Within never in need
Of breath, but lives within me
I must, we must show all
That I, we, all that breath
Without life but speak,
The steps upstairs are
Broken, I no longer climb to the
Top we, us, trapped on different
Floors of the mind. I breath and
Speak, they talk in the silent places
"The thoughts of a shattered mind"
Never heard so clearly as now they do,
In this airless place, **whispers speak.
 Mar 2015 Thato
B
~
 Mar 2015 Thato
B
~
I
Always
Wondered
Why
People
Consider
Me
A
Mystery
But
Then
I
Rea­lized
That
I
Don't
Even
Understand
Myself*

B.S.
 Mar 2015 Thato
B
I'm so sorry that I keep pushing you away.
My chest tightens at the thought of being in love.
I've been hurt so many **** times that it physically makes me sick to think about falling for someone again.
God, you mean so much to me, but I have no idea how to show it.
I'm scared.
Terrified for that matter.
I don't want to get hurt, but I don't want to lose you.
You make me happy, but I can't show you.
You make me feel again, but I won't tell you.
Because of you, I genuinely smile, but I won't let you see.
I just want to crawl under my covers and pretend I don't exist.
I don't want to fall for you.



                               B.S.
 Mar 2015 Thato
Lennox Jones
Sometimes all you can do
is lie in bed and hope
that you fall asleep
before it’s time to
get up.
 Mar 2015 Thato
Christian
her eyes
 Mar 2015 Thato
Christian
she was cute,
I think it was her smile,
she smiled at me,
everytime I spoke.
yea I´m sure its her smile

but

when noticing the anatomy of a woman,
you can´t forget the eyes

she means nothing if you forgot,
her eyes,
large and brown,
this is how I know it was her smile,
because her eyes smiled too
even when her mouth forgot to

Her hair was gentle...
like her eyes,
her hips they swayed from side to side

She scooted her chair closer to me
when we stopped dancing to rest tired feet

Maybe next time I´ll dance with you

I hope you found your keys
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