Mansa Daby: Poems

641 · Aug 2016

Mansa Daby Aug 2016

When Depths tries to meet Shallows
Depths loses itself
And Shallows moves away untouched.

Depths reaches out to Shallows
But Shallows cannot be reached
Unless Depths forfeits its own self.

But Depths cannot transform into Shallows
For Depths hides too much in Her *****
And Shallows will not metamorphose
For he does not have much within.

So Depths and Shallows are never meant to be.
Depths will ever carry her burden
And Shallows will ever drift away.

299 · Aug 2016

Mea Culpa

Mansa Daby Aug 2016

Mea Culpa

Guilty I am
Indeed, I am guilty
But not of what I am blamed.

Guilty I am
Of having believed.
Of having fathomed I had beside me
A warrior who would fight by my side.

Guilty I am
Of having battled
Against the signs of neglect
Boredom and rejection.

Guilty I am
Of having believed in the depths of sentiments
In the values of humanity
In the power of gratitude
And the sustenance of care.

Guilty I am
Of having believed we were same.
But, indeed, we are different.

— The End —