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Jun 2020
PoemMaybe you should let the ocean drink it’s water
Maybe you should stop pleading them to stay
Maybe you should unstitch your heart, it will heal anyway
Maybe you should let you voided soul live in the present
Maybe the future isn’t what your eyes has envisioned
Maybe it’s just a wake up call that not all flowers sprout
Just maybe you don’t exist in their mission nor vision
Maybe you not what they thought of.

Maybe you should let the ocean surf it’s waves
Maybe your heart is a dry land
Or maybe it’s an empty ocean and you can’t see that
Maybe you should stop forcing them to sail your ocean
Maybe you should wait instead of trying
Maybe the only thing that was made for you it’s you
Maybe your heart swallowed more than it’s size
Maybe self isolation is what you should cage
Just maybe you should wait till they find you

Maybe butterflies you always felt flying in your belly are fairies
Maybe they are just dead fishes floating in your ocean
Maybe rainy days are hiding from you because your dry ocean is impatient
Maybe sunny days are just memories you hate
Or maybe you've been searching under the wrong season
Maybe you shouldn’t be searching
Maybe what comes and leave never found what they need in you
Maybe what you dug in them is buried in you
You swallowed the whole titanic and never found what you need
Just you, maybe is what you should seek
Maybe what you need is you

Maybe you should stop painting their caves and paint your own
Maybe you should stop burning their cold caves
Maybe your fire burns the guilt that sleeps in their caves
Or maybe your too hot for them
Maybe your flames aren’t what they can wear around other’s
Maybe your sparks aren’t the present you hold for them
Just maybe your warmth is so comfortable that they wish to stay yet afraid
Maybe they are afraid you'd see how cold they need your warmth
Maybe you should look deep in your cave
Maybe you should burn your own

Maybe, just maybe or maybe what you need is you
Lehlohonolo Theletsane
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Lehlohonolo Theletsane  21/M/South Africa
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