Tatenda Ncube

Tatenda Ncube Jan 2020

Live

it's a cube...
it's a sphere...
it's a club...
it's a spear...
it's your life...
it's not his, it's not hers
was it hers, was it his.
                                       .
                                         .
                                           it was never gonna be yours...

Tatenda Ncube Dec 2019

#confined

The grass isn't greener on the other side,
oh how i've heard that so many times.
It isn't on the other side,
but i still feel like climbing over these walls at times.

Tatenda Ncube Jul 2019

Thoughts of summer

Winters' chill yester-night slid into my room,
Into my room, unannounced, found herself she a place under my sheetings
Allover mine body her caressing, chilly and inviting,
Inviting to my head thoughts of Summer, her last words "one day you'll miss me"
Miss her this day I do not, but her warmth, her warmth my mind keeps recalling, my body needing, my heart desiring
Hatred for her midday scorching heat, long gone is that feeling
Only her warmth, her early morning warmth, Oh her tender nibbles on my skin...

...To the one I took for granted

Tatenda Ncube Mar 2019

where art thoust shade?

Is it because you enjoy the pain,
look at you, fragile and withered
What it is that you expect to gain
won't you please take a breather
Or better yet jus' let go of your breath
'cause whether you live or die, either way for you it's still suicide
Graciously sentence yourself to death,
maybe live better in the afterlife you actually might

And only then when you are gone might they remember to remember,
Remember to remember that you were more than jus' a tree standing by the roadside

Take ye for granted nothing,,,

Tatenda Ncube Feb 2019

The breakup

Why am I laughing,
god knows this ain't funny
Is to hide from crying,
to keep my face from turning gloomy

Why are you crying,
No don't apologise, you've not yet tested true"sorry"
Yes walk away, leave me here emotionally dying,
Walk away towards your lonely,

Why am I laughing,
god knows this ain't funny
Giving up the right to be my Mrs. Right
I swear we could have been happy
Take you back to be the one I never might
oh! wait you just smiled, proud of our ending???

Tatenda Ncube Feb 2019

Victim of self (to the man in my mirror)

One man band rockstar
Well, that's what you think you are
Your favourite instrument, the guitar
String pulling has always been your heart's desire
Tell me...
How does it feel to be at the puppet'-end
of those strings for a change
Oh, how sweet love exerts its revenge!

The red of your eyes tells me you've been drinking
You fool, no amount of whiskey can drown what you're feeling
To stretch out my hand I'm wishing so as to keep you from sinking,
However at the top of mine voice, to shout "KARMA" feels more appealing

Not that for you I feel no sympathy,
No, trust me truly I do
Jus' that I'm constantly reminded of your once upon a time lack of empathy
The destruction that came to others by your own hand, do you have a clue?

Tatenda Ncube Feb 2019

Inmates

Locked up together, I hate it
No, I jus' lied, or did I
Confusion resides not only in my mind,
Nay I feel it also awkwardly invade my heart

Locked up together, she loves it
She says she don't, she lies
I see the flaming in her eyes
Ablaze it sets my heart

Locked up together in an unlocked world,
Walk away I could, walk away she could
Walk away we don't