To a father who produced me but was never there,
To a mother who introduced me to a world that gave me fear,
To a father who raised and showed me the steps of life,
To a grandfather who gave me my first reason to be alive,
To a grandmother who gave me great knowledge,
To a cousin with a friendship of great privilege,
To a baby cousin who gave me peace at a glance,
To an uncle who brought me an ultimate chance,
To friends who taught me through heartbreaks,
And to friends who made me laugh through bad states,
Everyone I had met in my life has played their role
And I shall be thankful ‘til He claims my soul,
I have come from pain to worst
Yet I live my life to my outmost best
In exchange to give you my personal appreciation
To your support and tremendous contribution,
This is my first letter to you
Accept it as my way of saying Thank You…

Tsala e ya nnete tota
E lerato le popota
Ga e go bone makoa
Ga e go tsenye ka sekgwa.

Fa lefatshe le tlhanoga
Le ditshotlo di tlhatloga
O mongwe fela yo o gomotsang
Ke tsala e e go ratang.

Tsala ya maaka, ramatlhajana
Tsamaya le ena nakonyana
Melato a ka e go bolaisa
Fa go buiwa o a itshegisa.

O go tsenya mo kotsing
A go potise ka fa mosing,
Le phepa la gagwe leina
O le tlhatswitse la wena.

Botsala jwa nnete
Ga bo tlhwatlhwa e bokete
Bo rekwa ka setshego
Le lerato la tlholego.

As I proceed I see no changes,
Everyone is still wearing the same guilty faces
Violence will forever live on
Just like the movement of the sun ‘til dawn,
Racism is one of the issues unchanged
Globally known yet it remains unchallenged…

A lifetime commitment
  To distant hopes,
A fall to the depth
  Of the ever-sloping slopes.
Everyday we search for eternal love,
Forever young the inevitable temptation
But forever the sky remains above
Evidence of desirous human emotions.
Forever can be enjoyed
  Like a fountain of one’s desires,
Forever can be feared
  Like Hell’s eternal fires.
Forever is a fantasy of the mind
And an eternal torment to the heart
Forever is depleting any resemblance of our kind
Yet we seek forever as it tears us apart.

The day I let her go
I couldn’t breathe no more
She had just blew her last breath,
The breath that kept me strong and stable
Her positive energy had left me negative and unmendable.
Light became dark, my blood flow stopped…

In a split second my skin was grey
With no regret in her eyes she turned away
Her shoulders froze, I burned.
I had to burn alone in a fantasy we built
With lost souls holding my feet.
Ashes of my heart, life was meaningless…

Hopes and dreams became sore memories
The future was bleak, lost in thousand galaxies,
Life had yet again robbed me happiness,
Though we had to reach this point someday
She meant to me more than the sun to a day.
Tears sealed my eyes shut, pity she never knew…

With a distant mind he had, the only thing that crossed it was the girl he loved.
But the distance between him and his heart was killing him slowly
Even the love of the girl he loved was fading like the setting sun,
Slowly as oceans repelled him from stopping the wound of an emotional gun.
Everything was quoted, every book he read, every word he heard,
  every picture he saw, all was quoted to guide him or put him to a stop.
Friends abandoned his wrecked body to suffer for eternity,
To his family it was a long awaited liberty,
He could not predict tomorrow anymore,
The picture of his future and his present was just a metaphor of no tomorrow,
Fragments of the past flashed his head like lightnings in a storm, inevitably.
They had dreamt a dream but led them nowhere,
A journey to go back and stop the seeds he grew from was an impossible option.
He had prayed everyday to see his death but all he got was more respiration
To feel more pain until his mental eruption of drowned sorrows,
There was no more tomorrow
The cracks on his heart eventually broke off…